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sometimes…… the best life……… is an unobserved one

Daylight

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

Reductress is the best site, no you can’t change my mind.

I was just going to reblog this, but then I went to the site and now I’m wheezing:

ottessa moshfegh

These are some of my favourites

kindness is a discipline, not a trait

Yes.

As with many disciplines, kindness may come more easily to some than to others. But it is nonetheless something you can learn, something you can teach, something you can work at.

Something you do, rather than something you are.

A few weeks ago a 15-year-old called me “Grandma” for being able to remember when the first Twilight film came out, and I still haven’t mentally or emotionally processed this

tag the age u were when twilight came out (2008) i was ten

Shoulda realized I had adhd that time I misplaced a two-ton vehicle and didn’t realize for 48 hours

How to activate executive dysfunction in twenty easy steps:

-be in college

 -drive to cafe to do homework, stay for a while

 -i can’t park at the university b/c parking passes are like 300 dollars, so i leave my car where it is and walk to a building on campus for a meeting. this is important.  normally I walk to and from campus

 -heyimoncampus.jpeg

 -it’s been 2 hours so by now the car has ceased to exist until I need it again

 -walk home 

-life as usual for a few days, I don’t need my car during the week so i don’t notice it’s not where it’s supposed to be

-Saturday. I pack up to drive to see my folks. Got all my stuff in a backpack and i’m ready to go 

-go to parking spot 

- Dude Where’s My Car (2000) 

 -holyfucksomebodystoleitwhostolemycar– waitasecond

-long term memory… loading. loading.

 -oh shit it’s 2 miles away I left it at the cafe on Thursday 

- “who stole my car” me. i did. i stole my own car. from myself

-basically jog back across campus to get there as fast as possible because it’s not like i left it in a rando parking lot for two days already and the 5 minutes i save by exhausting myself will totally make a difference

-holy shit i hope it’s still there

-it is. the god of forgetful assholes was smiling down on me because i don’t even have a parking ticket even though i’m right under a “no overnight parking” sign

- this car had a 50/50 shot of actually turning over on any given day because it guzzled through batteries like some people guzzle la croix so by now i’m freaking out b/c i have no idea what to do if it doesn’t start

-god of faulty car batteries is smiling too

-i am halfway to driving to my parents when i realize i forgot my backpack at home

-somehow it takes five years before anyone suspects i have adhd

-the end

my dad always tells me that when he’s with people bragging about their kids’ accomplishments and such he goes “yeah but are they like ....cool?” and the parents always give him a confused look and he goes “are they cool? my kids are so cool. i love hanging out with them.” and it always throws people off and i think that’s so funny and sweet like i may be a fucking idiot with just about zero accomplishments but at least my dad thinks i’m cool

“quick psa here folks”

Didn’t know this was such a pressing issue lol

Wow wish I had a cool gf

man’s dating a village wise woman and complaining 

does a tweet ever bring you hope

I really like what this physicist, Lamar Glover, has to say in Behind the Curve. 

+ this part from Spiros Michalakis:

Incredibly good take which is really rare for these topics