life. it happens.

[sometimesallihaveisthemoon]

[lie-smile-repeat]

You know it homie

[g00d-girlbad-habits-blog]

I think a lot but I don’t say much..

Anne Frank (via g00d-girlbad-habits)

[weedbabyy-pm]

[stability]

[theliteraryjournals]

I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via theliteraryjournals)

[just-shower-thoughts]

Jumanji taught us that the scariest thing in the African jungle is a white guy with a gun.

[ironychan]

“Sex is what makes us human”. Really? Because monkeys have sex. Turtles have sex. Barnacles have sex.

Humans learn foreign languages just because they can. Humans bake cookies. Humans knit sweaters. Humans ask permission to pet other humans’ dogs. Humans argue over whether ghosts are real. Humans write stories they’re too embarrassed to show to anybody. Humans eat food so spicy it makes our noses run. Humans do google searches to find out what kind of bird is making that noise. Humans build pyramids, or travel thousands of miles to look at other humans’ pyramids.

“Sex is what makes us human”. Really?

[yourlocalcrone]

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)

[jbh1622]

I love books

I love how reading transports you to another realm, even if it absolutely devastates you in the end.

[micdotcom]

Watch: In another clip, Sanders explains the real reason he got into politics.

[alrightevans]

remus lupin spent his final christmas at Hogwarts as a werewolf bye

[poems-and-words]

[thechargrey]

A little tip for parents with children in school (or for children in school to show their parents)

My mom gave me and my sister two days every semester that she called “mental health days.”

Those were days, that for ANY reason, and without having to tell my mom the reason, we could skip the day of school. We’d just tell her we were taking a mental health day and she’d call the school and let them know we were not coming in. 

#1 This helped keep our grades up by lowering our stress levels. I never got a C in any grade school class. The majority of my classes I received A’s. I also took 4 AP classes and they were not weighted. Trust me, it made a difference.

#2 I never felt the need to skip school. I knew if I ever wanted to or needed to my mom would help me. 

Your kids are young and need time to recover. They need some days where they can do nothing but stay in bed for no reason. They need their own space where their privacy is respected. It will make a huge difference.

[buckwildbarrelracer-deactivated]

Will do this when I have kids

[mossman-making-stars]

I would like to add something to this for the teachers too! (I may have already told this story on tumblr but OH WELL I’m telling it again)

One of my math teachers in high school had a policy called The Red Beanbags of Don’t Bother Me. He kept a pile of red beanbags on his desk, and at any time of the day you could go over and take one. From that point on, as long as you were in his classroom with a beanbag on your desk, no one could bother you. He wouldn’t call on you to answer problems, no students were allowed to talk to you, and perhaps most importantly, no one could ask why you took a bean bag that day. The only caveat was that if you used the beanbag more than three times in a semester you had to go talk to the school counselor about it.

I only used the beanbag a handful of times during those 4 years, but it was a godsend when I needed it. I knew people who would camp in his classroom during lunch (or even skip class and stay there all day) under the protection of the beanbag. As a teacher there’s not always a lot you can do for a student suffering mental illness/emotional abuse/ other struggles, but giving them some space and privacy in your class can make a HUGE difference.

[darkalleysunflower]

Posts like this can save lives.

[huffpost]

WATCH: Syrian Refugees: The Rumors vs. The Facts

[bunlly]

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anaïs Nin (via lazypacific)

[onlyssweetdreams]

Paris turned out the lights as a sign of mourning, but the rest of the world lit them again.