Of Life Through Young Eyes,

Of Life Through Young Eyes,

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Wednesday (2022)

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queue this post when it’s your birthday and be surprise

I queued this like 8 months ago I’ve waited a long time for this moment

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Sleepy Time

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Carrie Fisher’s Return of the Jedi Polaroids, 1982.

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Cute Date Ideas

taking a rain walk

going to a library and showing each other their favourite books

visiting a waterpark together

taking a walk through a park or a forest and admiring the colors

going to the zoo and pointing out the coolest animals

playing disk golf together

doing a scavenger hunt for cute little trinkets

visiting a museum about something you know nothing about

going to a bookshop and selecting books for each other

having a picknick with lots of seasonal food

visiting a brewery and doing a tasting

going to a café with an amazing tea selection

watching movies together while it storms outside

visiting a park and playing basketball or football together

going on a bicycle tour and finding new places

making pottery together and carving in their initials as a memento for the cute date

playing board games in a small café

going thrift shopping together or checking out a flea market

getting trash bags and cleaning up a public place together

going on a night hike and enjoying the dark and silent world with just each other as company

singing karaoke together

going inline skating and trying not to fall too often

swimming in a lake together

visiting some old castles/churches/etc. they’ve always wanted to check out

going to a fair and playing games and going on the Ferris wheel

picking apples together

taking a painting class and gifting each other the painting they made

going to a concert of their favourite band

playing paintball as a team or against each other

going to the movies and buying their favourite treats

watching the sunrise or sunset together

cooking for each other and judging each other’s food like they’re on Top Chef

going on hayrides

visiting an escape room and trying to solve the puzzles

going camping nearby and enjoying the time without distractions

visiting an amusement park and going on all the fun rides

going to a restaurant they’ve never been to and trying new food together

trying to learn a new skill together

doing a movie marathon with childhood favourites

checking out all the wonderful plants in the botanical garden

visiting an old cemetery and making up stories for the different graves

going to a trampoline park together

watching a drag show together

renting a paddleboat and seeing how far they can go

checking out lost places together

doing a photo shoot at a cool location

taking dance lessons together

going on a guided city tour even if both grew up there

doing a pub crawl and trying different drinks

volunteering together for something that’s important to both of them

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[flowerytale]

Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre

[bnteen]

[bookieecookiee]

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi [Book Review]

The book takes place in the café where the four different visitors hope to travel back in time to meet their loved ones. Travelling back in time isn’t as simple as ABC as there are a set of rules that need to be followed and conditions that need to be met. Despite what many people think, travelling back in time will not change the present because what has happened, has happened which is why a lot of people often give up when they hear this.

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Among all of the rules, the most important one is, the coffee needs to be drunk before it gets cold or else the person would be trapped in the past forever and they would become a ghost in the present, bound to sit at the seat in the cafe for eternity or at least until someone repeats the same mistake as the previous occupant and takes over.

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The book is split into four different parts which take place in chronological order: a lover who wants to see her boyfriend once more before he leaves for work abroad, a man suffering from Alzheimer who wants to give a letter to his wife but never dares to do so in the past, a lady who wants to meet her dead sister one last time and a mother who wants to meet her child from the future that she thinks she won’t have a chance to meet.

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The book is made up of different characters with very different personalities yet when they are all together, it’s a wonderful mix of harmony and chaos. The book wasn’t written in a plot-driven style, rather it focuses more on the character’s development and their thoughts. If your focus was to find out more on the components of time travelling, I am afraid this book won’t be suitable for you because the book focuses more on the character’s itself.

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A more in-depth review in up on my blog:

https://bookieecookiee.wordpress.com/2020/07/06/before-the-coffee-gets-cold-by-toshikazu-kawaguchi-book-review/

[atomos]

“We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. they are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. this happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. people in the second category, on the other hand, can always come up with the eyes they need. then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category. one day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. and finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. they are the dreamers.”

— Milan Kundera (via venebelle)

[atomos]

lost at sea (by aimeelikestotakepics)

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Life on Mars (by gurbir.grewal)

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glory bound (by ◄berserker)

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Via @glamourmag on Instagram

[humansofnewyork]

“One night there was a huge storm and he didn’t come home from work. I had told him to sleep at the shop, but he wouldn’t listen to me. And by nighttime he still hadn’t arrived. The trains shut down. The phones stopped working. I sat by the window all night with my children. I asked everyone who walked by if they’d seen him. The next morning I went to the temple and said so many prayers. Then at 11 AM, I heard the bell ring. And there he was. He was soaking wet and completely covered in mud. He smelled awful. I started crying so hard. I made him some hot tea and a little food, and he went straight to bed. When he finally woke up, I informed him that he would be moving his shop next to the house.” (Mumbai, India)

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This is LOVE ❤️❤️

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In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

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