May 2012
71 posts
Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what used to be reality. And not only that - as if that weren’t enough - but you, like Fat, ponder forever over these fluctuations in an effort to order them into a coherency, when in fact the only sense they make is the sense you impose on them, out of the...
I just feel so incredibly overwhelmed and lucky and blessed.
“It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing, and...”
– Stephen Fry, language enthusiast, defends the unnecessary ”art” of swearing
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I agree with this completely.
Things I’m gonna stop doing: - complaining - gossiping - saying negative things about myself/others - making excuses - being lazy
Things I’m gonna start doing: - running - raquetball - donating all the shit in my apt I don’t want - making decisions and sticking to them
Things I’m gonna keep doing: - smiling - laughing - smoking cigs - kissing my gf - standing up for...
“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.”
Eckhart Tolle
I’m feeling so unsettled, but I’m laying in bed next to a gorgeous girl, watching the President of the United States tell a bunch of women how great they are. So things must be good, right?
You think you are attractive because you are going to save the world by being a male nurse. Try not to be such a condescending, redundant dickhead, and approach people as human beings. Shoot.
“No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking...”
– Libba Bray (via shalott)
I will no longer be an empty soul-less vagina. I have desires, thoughts, feelings and opinions.
“There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we...”
– Benjamin Hoff, The Tao Of Pooh (via creatingaquietmind)
trying not to throw up because I just submitted my application to the most perfect AmeriCorps program.
AHHHHH.
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and...”
– David Foster Wallace on Life and Work
Your Diagnosis:
You feel a sense of anxiety and emotional isolation because you are not receiving the appropriate level of appreciation from the platonic or romantic relationships in your life. There is a sense that others are not willing to cooperate with you, which leads you to feel under appreciated.
You are a highly refined individual who takes pleasure in your capacity for discernment. When you feel that...
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for...”
– Charles Bukowski (via philphys) 