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diagnosed with woman in her twenties disease

just so u know everything in the entire universe is always about love and when it isn't about love it is abt the absence of love. hope this makes sense

weltenwellen

Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal of My Other Self

weltenwellen

Sarah Kay, from “The Paradox”, No Matter the Wreckage

itoldyouthings

the arguments to keep phones at concerts are so funny. there’s a line between capturing a few memories and literally standing like a statue with your phone in front of your face for an hour and a half while the musician is right in front of you trying to put on a show. why would you want to do that. live in the moment for once i’m begging

ritikajyala

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire