To wake up, after all

[purplebuddhaproject]

Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.

Author Unknown (via purplebuddhaproject)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I wasn’t fooled. I knew you at once.

Sylvia Plath, from Love Letter (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Sadness is not unhealthy. It often seems to me that it prevents us from drying up.

George Sand, from a letter to Gustave Flaubert (via violentwavesofemotion)

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It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth. You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything. But in real life, you can’t avoid doing things. We have to earn a living, do our taxes, have difficult conversations sometimes. Human life requires confronting uncertainty and risk, so pressure mounts. Procrastination gives a person a temporary hit of relief from this pressure of “having to do” things, which is a self-rewarding behavior. So it continues and becomes the normal way to respond to these pressures. Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them. Their older siblings may have been high achievers, leaving big shoes to fill, or their parents may have had neurotic and inhuman expectations of their own, or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.

David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness” (via sociolab)

[shortandsweet]

Surprisingly, perfectionists are often procrastinators, as they can tend to think “I don’t have the right skills or resources to do this perfectly now, so I won’t do it at all.”

this is an important thing to remember.

[angelsdawnsroads]

“I can’t start this/try this new thing. I’m not perfect at it yet.”

[bikesbabesandbooze-deactivated2]

[angelsdawnsroads]

Hualian, China

[angelsdawnsroads]

Taken in HuaLian, Taiwan Vacation

[deanprincesster-deactivated2017]

women: being a woman is hard

men: I think you’re forgetting something: it is also hard to be a man. just letting you know that you forgot to mention that when you were talking about being a woman

[angelsdawnsroads]

The new therapist specializes in trauma counseling. You have only ever spoken on the phone. Her house has a side gate that leads to a back entrance she uses for patients. You walk down a path bordered on both sides with deer grass and rosemary to the gate, which turns out to be locked. At the front door the bell is a small round disc that you press firmly. When the door finally opens, the woman standing there yells, at the top of her lungs, Get away from my house. What are you doing in my yard? It’s as if a wounded Doberman pinscher or a German shepherd has gained the power of speech. And though you back up a few steps, you manage to tell her you have an appointment. You have an appointment? she spits back. Then she pauses. Everything pauses. Oh, she says, followed by, oh, yes, that’s right. I am sorry. I am so sorry, so, so sorry.

Citizen, Claudia Rankine

[levanstuff]

[maxformajor]

[queergraffiti]

"ne jebu te pederi nego kapitalizam!" - "you’re not being fucked by gays, you’re being fucked by capitalism!"

seen in Rijeka, Croatia

the same graffiti seen elsewhere in Croatia

[macchacat]

Dear kind sir, pass me another eggnog will you?

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody’s downfall.

Emil Cioran, from On The Heights Of Despair (via violentwavesofemotion)

[humansofnewyork]

"My ex-boyfriend and I took a three month trip through Southeast Asia, but he left me in Vietnam." "Oh man, what happened?" "Oh, you know… I went to Burma, he went to India. I’m emotional, he’s a sociopath."

[angelsdawnsroads]

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