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everythingsuchas: this kid

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:47:20 -0400

everythingsuchas:

this kid

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Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:58 -0400

"It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:46 -0400

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It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend most of your time with Netflix or that you haven’t left the house today and you might not even go outside tomorrow. Ha ha, funny. But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you’re not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are.

A part of you knew this was going to happen. Growing up, you just had this feeling that you wouldn’t transition well to adult life, that you’d fall right through the cracks. And look at you now. La di da, it’s happening.

Your mother, your father, your grandparents: they all look at you like you’re some prized jewel and they tell you over and over again just how lucky you are to be young and have your whole life ahead of you. “Getting old ain’t for sissies,” your father tells you wearily.

You wish they’d stop saying these things to you because all it does is fill you with guilt and panic. All it does is remind you of how much you’re not taking advantage of your youth.

You want to kiss all kinds of different people, you want to wake up in a stranger’s bed maybe once or twice just to see if it feels good to feel nothing, you want to have a group of friends that feels like a tribe, a bonafide family. You want to go from one place to the next constantly and have your weekends feel like one long epic day. You want to dance to stupid music in your stupid room and have a nice job that doesn’t get in the way of living your life too much. You want to be less scared, less anxious, and more willing. Because if you’re closed off now, you can only imagine what you’ll be like later.

Every day you vow to change some aspect of your life and every day you fail. At this point, you’re starting to question your own power as a human being. As of right now, your fears have you beat. They’re the ones that are holding your twenties hostage.

Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen. You’ve already spent enough time feeling like you’re stuck, like you’re watching your life fall through you like a fast dissolve and you’re unable to hold on to anything.

I don’t know if you ever get better. I don’t know if a person can just wake up one day and decide to be an active participant in their life. I’d like to think so. I’d like to think that people get better each and every day but that’s not really true. People get worse and it’s their stories that end up getting forgotten because we can’t stand an unhappy ending. The sick have to get better. Our normalcy depends upon it.

You have to value yourself. You have to want great things for your life. This sort of shit doesn’t happen overnight but it can and will happen if you want it.

Do you want it bad enough? Does the fear of being filled with regret in your thirties trump your fear of living today?

We shall see.

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- You’re Not Making The Most Of Your 20s by Ryan O’Connell (via hidingfromoursins)

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badwulf: Location - Freelance Whales

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:21:53 -0400

badwulf:

Location - Freelance Whales

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Thu, 23 May 2013 04:13:27 -0400

simplykaelacha: Huckleberry Quinn

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:05:47 -0400

simplykaelacha:

Huckleberry Quinn

rainmadeofechoes: I’m pretty sure this show is laced with...

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:01:05 -0400

rainmadeofechoes:

I’m pretty sure this show is laced with cocaine or heroine or something. I watched 2 seasons in three days. And now I’m over here like rocking in a corner. I can’t. Just.

WHAT?

SAME.

picturesque-scene: they saw the chance they took the chance

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:13:45 -0400

picturesque-scene:

they saw the chance

they took the chance

SIX WORD POEM (5/22/13)

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:05:46 -0400

ericboydblog:

Living
will not
wait
any
longer.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:50:07 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:46:57 -0400

"in my generation, it was difficult to know that you could take control of your own life. you thought..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:41:00 -0400

““in my generation, it was difficult to know that you could take control of your own life. you thought your husband and children were supposed to dictate your life. now i see young women who feel they have to be a total success by 30, which is very different. and both things are equally wrong.””

- gloria steinem (via clarajudgypants)

(via eatingelephants )

"There are entire blogs dedicated to exposing how terrible of a person I am. It’s great promo. The..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:31:08 -0400

“There are entire blogs dedicated to exposing how terrible of a person I am. It’s great promo. The worst/funniest thing someone has ever said to me as an insult was, “Tyler Oakley’s voice is how comic sans sounds” — that’s beautiful. That’s basically poetic.”

- Tyler Oakley on people who hate him. (via gideoncrumb)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:28:51 -0400

"When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years old and watching TV..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:09:42 -0400

“When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years old and watching TV and I didn’t see any Asians on television. And you turn on Star Trek and there’s this Asian guy not chopping anybody up. He’s honorable, a helmsman of a spaceship, and it was a big, big deal for me to see that and have a role model.”

- John Cho (x)

Daily reminder that media representation matters. We need to see ourselves in stories to believe in the possibility of our own stories.
(via theboxscene)