Consistent misfirings @inconsistentlymental - Tumblr Blog

Most of my life has been spent trying to shrink myself. Trying to become smaller. Quieter. Less sensitive. Less opinionated. Less needy. Less me. Because I didn’t want to be a burden. I didn’t want to be too much or push people away. I wanted people to like me. I wanted to be cared for and valued. I wanted to be wanted. So for years, I sacrificed myself for the sake of making other people happy. And for years, I suffered. But I’m tired of suffering, and I’m done shrinking. It’s not my job to change who I am in order to become someone else’s idea of a worthwhile human being. I am worthwhile. Not because other people think I am, but because I exist, and therefore I matter. My thoughts matter. My feelings matter. My voice matters. And with or without anyone’s permission or approval, I will continue to be who I am and speak my truth. Even if it makes people angry. Even if it makes them uncomfortable. Even if they choose to leave. I refuse to shrink. I choose to take up space. I choose to honour my feelings. I choose to give myself permission to get my needs met. I choose to make self-care a priority. I choose me.

Daniell Koepke (via wordsnquotes)

micdotcom

Watch: George Takei sends a message in Spanish about how we can defeat Trump

wilwheaton

George is doing such important work right now. I’m so grateful he’s speaking out.

brookeva

I watched his documentary and sobbed when he talked about his family and the internment camps but he’s such a happy man its hard to believe.

This country is scaring the hell out of me.

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perfumepoison

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there’s something inside us that’s so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won’t be able to stand looking at it. But it’s when we’re willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit To Brooklyn (via crycicadacry)

toamto

The hedgehog’s dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is a metaphor about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group ofhedgehogs all seek to become close to one another in order to share heat during cold weather. They must remain apart, however, as they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp spines. Though they all share the intention of a close reciprocal relationship, this may not occur, for reasons they cannot avoid.

Both Arthur Schopenhauer and Sigmund Freud have used this situation to describe what they feel is the state of individual in relation to others in society. The hedgehog’s dilemma suggests that despite goodwill, human intimacy cannot occur without substantial mutual harm, and what results is cautious behavior and weak relationships. With the hedgehog’s dilemma, one is recommended to use moderation in affairs with others both because of self-interest, as well as out of consideration for others. The hedgehog’s dilemma is used to explain introversion and isolationism.

thelovejournals

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice (via thelovejournals)

ardor-mohr

“The public is an idea… When first a clever society makes concrete reality into nothing, then the Media creates that abstraction, ‘the public,’ which is filled with unreal individuals, who are never united nor can they ever unite simultaneously in a single situation or organization, yet still stick together as a whole. The public is a body, more numerous than the people which compose it, but this body can never be shown, indeed it can never have only a single representation, because it is an abstraction. Yet this public becomes larger, the more the times become passionless and reflective and destroy concrete reality; this whole, the public, soon embraces everything…

The public is not a people, it is not a generation, it is not a simultaneity, it is not a community, it is not a society, it is not an association, it is not those particular men over there, because all these exist because they are concrete and real; however, no single individual who belongs to the public has any real commitment; some times during the day he belongs to the public, namely, in those times in which he is nothing; in those times that he is a particular person, he does not belong to the public. Consisting of such individuals, who as individuals are nothing, the public becomes a huge something, a nothing, an abstract desert and emptiness, which is everything and nothing…”

— Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age and of the Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle (1846), translated by Alexander Dru (1962)

fyp-science

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

Nikola Tesla (via fyp-science)

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Alfred G. Buckham - Sunshine, Wind and Rain, 1920s

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Photographers Francisco Diaz (@frankdiazphoto) and Deb Young (@debyoungphoto), who together form The International Collaboration Project, created ‘The Playground Series’ to capture the magic and mystery of childhood and the “joy and lightheartedness” of being young. Prints available at @susanspiritusgallery. To submit your images for consideration on our feed, follow @childhoodeveryday and tag your photos #childhoodeveryday. // #fineartphotography #artphotography #contemporaryphotography #blackandwhiteisworththefight #monochrome http://ift.tt/2aUmoY9

wordsnquotes

…I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head.

Anne Sexton, The Poet Of Ignorance (via wordsnquotes)

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I don’t even know what I am anymore

did-you-know

Redhawk realized his failing vision caused things to morph, so he started to play with morphing software and thought, “What if I morphed an image onto itself?”

“It’s an artistic expression of the confusion I go through with my vision loss…

Not enough data getting sent to the brain, and it tries to fill in the blanks with false information, so you can’t trust what your eyes or brain are telling you.”