Settle Down With Me

"and she laughs without fear of the future" Proverbs 31:25b

[outflowofemotion]

Longing.

There’s a longing I cannot quench.

I long for a touch,

I long for a shared smile,

I long for affection.

The days go quickly

and suddenly you remember

you’re alone.

[laughingwithoutfear]

“that means all my closest friends are pregnant!”

and i waited for the inevitable sadness or bitterness

to spur the joke “and i’m still single” with a laugh—

but it never came.

that hollow feeling of being left behind

didn’t happen.

the urge to make it about me

to throw a little pity party

by making a joke before they could

wasn’t necessary.

because, yes, all my closest friends are pregnant

and all i felt was true, genuine, all-consuming joy.

[geekerne]

"To the people who look at the stars and wish.

To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered."

- A Court of Mist and Fury

100 days of quotes - Day 7

[tolerateit]

i hate you drank less water headache i hate you slept too little headache i hate you slept too much headache i hate you too stressed out to function headache i hate you forgot to eat headache i hate you excessive screen time headache i hate you cried too much headache i hate you exercised too little headache i hate you no reason headache i hate you

[stuckinapril]

girls need a step by step guide for how not to feel like everything they’re doing is a performance

[star-wars]

I don’t wanna lose you.

[blondejokes-deactivated20220825]

As a society valuing convenience over experience is why everything sucks today. Blockbuster was an EXPERIENCE. the movie theater was an EXPERIENCE. Music stores were an EXPERIENCE. Arcades were an EXPERIENCE. I don’t want to sit in my house forever!!!!! I don’t want everything streamed to my electronics!!!!! I want to sit in front of the big silver screen for 2 hours with a coke freeze and come out with my life changed!!!! I want to live and I don’t care the cost!!!!!!

[jojosbizarrespam]

Kylo and his red lightsaber

Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

[chrisquartet]

This is quite touching

[cocomonerd]

No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.

[qvotable]

“And yet, you kept going.”

— Unknown

[theeinnermost]

i want whirlwind

i want swept off my feet

i want head over heels

i want intensity and passion

i want soft and tender

but most of all

i don’t want to be the only one

falling in love

i want safety

i want to be caught

[tough-girl9]

I recently saw a meme on Facebook that said something along the lines of “how to make a millennial panic: lock them in a room with only a phone book and a rotary phone and write the instructions in cursive!” It had this smug “aha, gotcha” vibe oozing out of it, and it…just sort of made me laugh. Like, really? Really? But it also made me think…

Beyond the fact that I know how to use both a phone book and a rotary phone and can read cursive (as long as it’s not too horrifically messy), I think it was the attitude of “Oh no, we’ve got you because you couldn’t possibly figure out how to use something that’s new to you” that really made me snort. But I think that’s the key to this and similar memes that I’ve seen.

They don’t think we could figure out how to use something new to us, because they can’t do it. 

Like, if you presented a millennial with a rotary phone or a phone book and they had never, ever used one or seen one used before, I can guarantee pretty much any millennial could figure out how to use it. Because that’s what we do: we adapt. We’ve been through so many variations of technology and seen so many new forms of technology emerge that we’ve had to learn to adapt swiftly and fluidly. It’s second nature to us.

Put a boomer in a room with a smartphone, laptop, and tablet however, and well…different story.

I’m not sure if they literally don’t understand that presenting a millennial with something they haven’t encountered before would not be an obstacle and certainly not a panic-inducing one, or if they just say things like that to make themselves feel better that they couldn’t do the equivalent, or if it’s a combination of the above.

[oopsabird]

I just realized that the original meme is also, quite accidentally, basically describing the principle behind….. escape rooms.

You know, the recent popular trend in participatory entertainment in which thousands of millennials literally go out and pay money to voluntarily be locked in a room where they have to solve puzzles under a time pressure, often using antiquated or analog technology, secret codes, and mechanisms they don’t yet understand, all without using their phones/the internet. For fun.

For many of us, that’s not panic-inducing, that’s just our idea of an enjoyable Saturday night out with some friends!

Now I’m just laughing even harder.

[outflowofemotion]

steady.

this is my first poem

for you.

you said you have

no expectations.

i’m trying not to have

any either.

but

i’ve never been good

at no feeling.

my mind sprints away.

now

the man i imagine

when i picture

love and happiness

and my future

suddenly he has a face

and it belongs to you.

[ashstfu]

crazy how sometimes u dance alone to your favorite song in your bedroom and you are like oh yeah thats why im alive

[lakevida]

americans love to eat a meal alone in a parked car

[filmnoirsbian]

Nostalgia is like hey remember that time in your life when you were unbearably sad and angry all the time? What if you weren't? What if you actually miss it? What if magnolia trees never smell like that again?