meaningless madness

Are you in pain like me?

[femmehealer]

if ur lgbt: what’s ur fav season & ur birth month????

[urmars]

how to really get to know someone:

- look at their handwriting

- read their favourite book and search for pieces of them within the pages

- listen to their music and let it resonate with you

- go to their favourite place

- stay up ‘till 3am and let them spill their heart out to you

- ask them unusual questions that you never even thought would intrigue you

- spend a day with them doing nothing

- look out for the things they subconsciously do when they’re happy

- watch how their smile forms

[andwhatisyourstory]

- go through old photos with them

- use their body wash when you shower at the persons place (truly, you’ll feel it)

- talk to their parents, grandparents or siblings

[urmars]

I love the ones added <3

[gayguyy]

-Make them laugh and learn their different laughs (my personal fave to share with someone is the sleepy-drunk laugh)

- make art with them, sitting in the silence just drawing or painting, or having deep conversations while making art, both realllyyy connect them

- spent time with their pets (but not too much because they might be jealous) - notice how they squeeze the toothpaste bottle.

- let them tell you their dreams and ask if you can look it up for them, share the results.

- learn their impulse buys/decisions

[urmars]

^^^ ahhh these are so cute!!

[petiite-abeille]

- listen to their scratchy voice in the morning

- have deep eye contact with them

- look at their hands

[wnq-writers]

Sometimes I wonder… If am a girl with a storm instead of a soul, Or if I am a storm inside this fragile girl’s skin.

Sophia Carey (via wnq-writers)

[wnq-writers]

you should never have to apologize for the way you need to be loved.

spinningsharks (via wnq-writers)

[strawberry-sinner-blog]

Okay like im not saying I want to kill myself but death would literally be easier than this right now.

[strawberry-sinner-blog]

me: i hope i die in my sleep, i'm ugly as shit, nobody loves me back

me a few moments later: who's the prettiest bitch in this world???? just look at my face you better pray to me

[recoveryisbeautiful]

When you have a GREAT day but out of nowhere end up depressed anyway:

[pussy-likes-pussy]

teen suicide // cop graveyard

[wnq-writers]

Ever since I can remember I wanted to change the world. And now that I’ve met you, all I want to do is change your world.

ingurgitate-me (via wnq-writers)

[strawberry-sinner-blog]

Why does shit always have to go down when im on my period. Like. How do you explain to someone you dont normally act like this but your uterus is attempting to bleed you out and thanks to that you're all emotional.

[wnq-writers]

You don’t have to surround yourself with people. Sometimes, being alone is okay.

E.J. Cenita (via wnq-writers)

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[getfawked120-deactivated2023053]

Nowhere is safe… can’t go to the club, can’t go to school, can’t go to concerts, can’t take the subway like what can you do 😞

[wokeuptired]

hey so without minimizing the terror of what happened tonight, i want to share this video, where vox producer carlos maza talks about how the way terrorism is covered by the media enhances and alters the way that we perceive terrorism. basically he says that when you turn on cable news and see 24-hour news coverage of an incident and the same violent footage over and over, your brain starts to think that terrorism is common—when in actuality, the chances of you or someone you know being involved in a terrorist attack are really, really, really small. 

it’s also important to remember that news networks make money off of views during coverage of terrifying events: the more a news network sensationalizes an event, the more they show horrifying footage, the more they interview visibly shaken witnesses… the harder it’s going to be for their viewers to look away. which leads to more money for them, and increased fear in communities (which is then exploited by politicians through fear mongering and what security expert bruce schneier, who is interviewed in the video, calls “security theater”).

i found what’s said in this video to be comforting because it’s really easy to come away from a night of news coverage like we had tonight and be afraid. it would be really easy for me to work myself up tonight and go to work tomorrow and watch my classroom fill with students and wonder how many of them will make it to adulthood, because this and that and the other thing. it would be really easy for me to think that everything is futile because the world is so fucked up that the little things we do aren’t going to matter in the long run, but that kind of thinking isn’t healthy.

i’m not saying that it’s wrong to be afraid. we are living in a bizarre, upside-down world full of things to be afraid of. i want to echo what maza and schneier say in the video: you have to be a skeptical consumer of news. you have to remember who produces the news you watch and why they do it. but even more than that, you have to protect your heart, and you have to keep yourself from operating out of a place of fear. 

terrible things happen every day. we have to talk about them and we have to give them the respect they deserve and we have to figure out why they happened and how we can stop them from happening again. and we have to resist the urge to let fear dictate our actions.

[jackmarlowe]

As someone who until recently worked in breaking news, so well stuck into the headspace of the 24/7 news cycle, this fear-cycle is real – I think it’s important to acknowledge that it’s also a very unnatural way of processing horrifying events. When you get bad news in your personal life – a friend passes away, someone gets sick – you usually have some control over the pace and depth with which you deal with this information; you have time to get perspective and help and work out how far this thing is likely to impact you. The event itself is no less bad, but in personal crises you have more capacity for emotional protection and processing than if you’re glued to a cycle of unprocessed raw updates.

When I was covering crises, it was important for me to remind myself that my fear the next day about getting on the tube or going to a club or a mall was artificially amped up because I had no space from the coverage. Doing this daily had a huge, tangible affect on my mental health; learning every gruesome detail was a requirement of the job, but most times didn’t actually help me process or understand better. I think people need gentle reminding that the 24/7 cycle doesn’t have to be your default, and it’s very often unhealthy to be so – if you can, turn off push notifications for a few hours, designate a time to catch up on the news, avoid social media for a while. Ask yourself what you, personally, need to know to feel like you can have some temporary closure or a break. It’s natural to want to know more, but you have to build in the vital recovery time the news cycle doesn’t give you.

[wnq-writers]

People who save everyone, usually don’t save themselves.

meghanabhange  (via wnq-writers)

[wnq-writers]

People like sitting at the beach because a calm ocean helps the chaotic mind.

highonnumbness  (via wnq-writers)

[bonnieternal]

[hplyrikz]

Clear your mind here

[curlsandstems]

No one deserves to be ignored. Grow up and communicate.