Conducive Outlier @em-ery - Tumblr Blog

by Francesco Cinque

The culture of advertising - which bombarded Americans daily, hourly - eroded our capacity to distinguish between the truths and the lies. And not even in moral terms, but on the practical level. You could label a house “traditional” and someone would accept it, even if all the traditional relationships between the house and its surroundings were obliterated. You could name a housing development Forest Knoll Acres even if there was no forest and no knoll, and the customers would line up with their checkbooks open. Americans were as addicted to illusion as they were to cheap petroleum. They had more meaningful relationships with movie stars and characters on daytime television shows than they did with members of their own families. They didn’t care if things were real or not, if ideas were truthful. In fact, they preferred fantasy. They preferred lies. And the biggest lie of all was that the place they lived was home.

James Howard Kunstler, “The Geography of Nowhere” (via mishproductions)

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“She confronted volcanoes, And came away breathing ash.”

graciepoetry, ‘Progress’ (via wnq-writers)

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a drive i won’t forget | spencercotton

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sunrise cruising | itseriksen

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hüzün; from Arabic حُزْن (ḥuzn)

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em-ery

You understand my light.

Sunrise & Sunset

I bask in your beauty as the sunset graces the horizon and patiently await to relish in it once more as you awake with the sunrise.

Do not let loneliness control you, it is only a state of mind. When you start to realize that everyone around you, close to you, the people that know you, the real you, slowly start to find their own path in life, and move forward, away towards better things, encourage them. When you find yourself alone, take on a hobby, occupy your time, do things you normally would not, and grow to love yourself. When you are living alone, do not have family to interact with, or friends that you can socialize with, do not worry for God is by your side and he will love you, cherish you, bless you, and be there to listen to your worries, your sadness, that which burdens you. Be strong, you will meet people who understand you, and want to push you to do your best, but there will be people who judge you, who wish to change you, who will not understand your trials or past, and who will want to use you… Kill them with love, compassion, and most of all, be yourself. To be yourself is to love yourself, so be weird, experience the new, let out your craziness, pursue with passion, and watch as you grow… You will attract those around you and attain happiness that many crave…. Use your loneliness as an instrument of change.

#happiness #bottledstraightfromthesource

You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.

CS Lewis