Another week, another conference, another day needed to spend recovering.
I am so tired. Of more than just being physically exhausted.
A, 20, Belfast.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
• Ask me anything
• Submit it was old and broken down and perfect for us.
“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via 4mbivalent)
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I have a conference tomorrow and for three days I will thankfully be around some of the most wonderful people I know and will remind myself why we do this in the first place.
(Stop craving company. Embrace the solitude knowing that it is chosen, that you are refusing to settle for someone just because they are there.)
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”
— Charles Bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade)
Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not Going To Talk About
- Sometimes, the fine line between anxiety and impatience, and the importance thereof.
“In our age, there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mess of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
— from Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell (via the—blues—are—still—blue)
“We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.”
— Jeremy Glass, We Can’t Get Lost Anymore (via her0inchic)
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Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation.
Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem.
Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in the leg and need surgery? Of course.
Smoke tobacco for most of your life and need treatment for lung cancer? Yep.
Climb a tree, fall out and break your leg? We’ll fix that right up.
Have sex and get pregnant when you don’t want to be? YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO THIS SITUATION AND YOU DESERVE NO MEDICAL HELP OR COMPASSION! THIS IS YOUR FAULT AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!
”— Worry About Your Own Uterus: (via cityyandcolour)
(Source: dakotawhatever, via cityyandcolour)
A strange few months.
It was odd how different it felt the other night. You’re better. You got better. If we’d met now, we’d probably be together. And it wouldn’t be like last time.
You got better and I haven’t, but I’m better at coping, now. Here’s hoping for a 2013 without any hospital admissions.
