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You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”
Elizabeth Taylor (via philosonista)
Everytime I see this comic I always feel a bit happier
This is so important. So so so so soooo important. Seeing people that look like you being displayed in their truth and being exalted changes your life.
the year of letting go, of understanding loss. grace. of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’. the year of humanity/humility. when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed. everyone i’ve met this year, says the same thing ‘you are so easy to be around, how do you do that?’. the year i broke open and dug out all the rot with own hands. the year i learnt small talk. and how to smile at strangers. the year i understood that i am my best when i reach out and ask ‘do you want to be my friend?’. the year of sugar, everywhere. softness. sweetness. honey honey. the year of being alone, and learning how much i like it. the year of hugging people i don’t know, because i want to know them. the year i made peace and love, right here.
Warsan Shire (via
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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
Alice Walker, LIVING BY THE WORD (via durgapolashi)
The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.
Ruth Benedict (via fyp-science)
Further Away by Abi Ashra (Tumblr)
<i>Speechless by Emmerson Grin
Somedays you will feel lonely lonely and empty and lost when you are far from alone and somedays you will be happy happy and excited and comfortable without another needing soul wrapped around yours around to remind you of your joy I must learn how to seek out love without feeling like I am crawling and begging for something I no longer deserve and I have to discover how to leave the love of others for a time without fearing I’ll never be allowed to return
A.O.A.M. || Alone and Not (via thehipsterconspiracy)
Friendship, especially as you grow older, is not talking to each other everyday like it may have been. It’s knowing that when everything comes crumbling down at 3am, they’re right there with you on the other end of the line.
(via c0ntemplations)
What's the best way to handle rejection?
My biggest weakness is that I am extremely poor at handling rejection. I feel that rejections are a reflection of lack of effort or insight on my part, and more often than not, in hindsight, I feel that I could have avoided it.
I’m still having a difficult time accepting that sometimes rejection may not even be about me. After all, I am just a small person in this big big world. The one idea I’ve tried to incorporate in my life is that I should be rejected more. I know there is a level of complacency in my personality that I’m trying to get rid of, and maybe being rejected often will help me get rid of it. It sounds counterintuitive, but it works.
If I’m not being rejected enough, then I’m not trying hard enough. I’m not pushing boundaries, reaching for my absolute best potential or even looking at all possible options to think outside the box.
I need to be rejected more, so that maybe I’ll end up doing something more substantial.
Still though, there is nothing I can say about rejection that will make it easier to cope with having to disappoint someone else. That’s a part of my personality that I can’t ever get rid of.
We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve.
Anonymous (via wnq-anonymous)
Rejection doesn’t hurt, expectation does. Lying doesn’t kill, denial does. Forgetting doesn’t heal, forgiving does.
Anonymous (via wnq-anonymous)
I was around 7 when I watched this movie. I didn't know that this was a rendition of Romeo and Juliet... so it was quite heartbreaking to find out that they both die in a tragic way after having rooted for them since the beginning. But the music... The melody made up for the shitty unnecessary ending.
If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.
Anonymous (via wnq-anonymous)
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wnq-anonymous)
Imagine popping a cipro for your UTI, sitting down in the lazy boy and watching some tv, and as you got up to grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch, your achilles tendon snapped. Ooof.
Once a drug is approved by the FDA and makes it to market, it is deemed safe and there’s no passive, simple way for the FDA to collect ongoing data about side effects or adverse outcomes. It truly depends on doctors, nurses, and patients to actively report what they think are bad things to the FDA. Once a drug has been approved, the FDA thinks it has done its job and it’s now up to the prescribers and users to alert that a drug is proving to be unsafe.
And terribly unsafe drugs do happen. In 2005, Merck pulled a drug called Vioxx from the market. Vioxx caused between 88,000 and 139,000 heart attacks, 30 to 40 percent of which were probably fatal, in the five years the drug was on the market. Public Citizen, Ralph Nader’s consumer advocacy group, began petitioning the FDA 5 years prior to Merck withdrawing Vioxx claiming the drug was killing people.
As a preventive medicine resident in 2006, I worked at Public Citizen. At the time, their healthcare group was an 8-member team and they were the only group in America acting as a full-time consumer watchdog group on the pharmaceutical industry. This blew my mind. For the entire US of A.
I was the main author on a petition to the FDA requesting that the FDA mandate a black box warning on all fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics including the popular drug, Cipro. Most drugs have a laundry list of side effects they are mandated to list. If one side effect is more severe than others, it’s included as “black box,” a design element intended to draw more attention to the particular serious side effect. Fluoroquinolones were causing healthy people’s tendons to rupture sometimes hours after taking the medication. That’s no good. Public Citizen saw an increase in reports of these tendon ruptures associated with this class of antibiotics and tasked me with writing the petition to the FDA. We were successful and a black box warning about tendon rupture was required on all of these antibiotics in this class in 2008.
Fast forward 8 years, and the FDA issued a new alert last week announcing to patients that the risks of this class of medication outweigh the benefits when another class of medications is available. Change for the better happens in healthcare. And you can make it happen. It’s a long, drawn out procedure involving multiple people, persistence, and passion. But this is what makes healthcare people so great. Healthcare changemakers are the most passionate, patient, driven, and resilient people. They’re in it for the long haul. I’m proud to consider myself one.
P.S. I wrote another petition in 2007 to ban third generation oral contraceptives, one of the most popular class of oral contraceptives because they carry double the risk of blood clots. Last year, a friend of mine died from a blood clot while taking a third generation oral contraceptive.
