#isitreal?

[ladyarwelie]

Me two minutes ago: “I’m bored, let’s check if there are some Fairy Tail spoilers...”

Me right now, a 26 years old Miraxus shipper:

[reflectionsofatourmentedsul]

Is Love real?

I had someone who I look up to greatly say they don't believe in love recently and it got me thinking.

Is love real? 

what is love? 

ever since i was little love has been perceived as a fairytale, the prince will sweep me off my feet and we’ll live happily ever after. Love is supposed to be this magical feeling, something that’s so strong that you can’t explain it because it’s just that breathtaking. 

But what if that’s not the case? 

what if we never meet our prince charming/ damsel in destress? 

And if we do eventually meet ‘the one’  what has pushed those people who don't believe in love to their breaking point? 

I haven't been in love with ‘the one’ yet, and I’m not sure I ever will, but I still have hope; hope that they’re out there. 

I have hope that I’ll fall in love. 

[toinfiniteandgone-blog]

Is It Real?

I try to express the wars raging in my body one of love and one of hatred

I can’t tell if the hatred is for myself or the one that was supposed to love me forever

I try to explain, yet no one understands.

Is it real? Is love real?

[plasticheese2]

bee movie honey

is it weird that in the bee movie, the honey is processed in the hive? Like, does that mean that the “true honey” is already altered?

[letmebeyourbassoonist-blog]

One more fraction

You asked me if I loved you. I panicked and saw the laughter from before, still resting in your dark brown eyes. The words fall short and my heart looses its place in the constant rhythm that it beats. What's the matter with me? I've said these words before, but now it feels to real. Maybe. Is all I say.

[palomahgomez]

Week 2

Social Networks Sites as Networked Publics 

The part that stood out to me the most was under Transformation of Publics: "In network publics, attention becomes a commodity"...and, I would add, a business. An example of this would be companies managing their Search Engine Optimization, in other words, managing the attention that their website, blog or other social networking accounts receive. This is taken a step further when companies depend on the 'attention-received' to measure sales, also known as return on investment (ROI). ROI can be crucial to a company's success rate, this is why SEO is micro-managed. SEO management is beneficial by showing the audience's response to material that the business's social media sites are posting. 

The reading also said that it is important to know your audiences in order to--in a way--support their desires. For example, I worked for an Orthopedic Massage company that specialized in physical therapy for athletes. Knowing my target audience, I would post running memes, self-massage articles, health tips, and exercise videos. I realized that these posts gained a lot more attention than the generic "Come get a massage" post on Facebook. The audience was a lot more engaged in the more applicable posts. This audience attention grabs google's attention and determines the business's rank on google (whether it is the first, or last). In essence, I feel like It's more so of a popularity contest because attention can determine the business's standing and its success in the network publics world. But does this race for the the #1 spot put the quality of the product/service into questioning? is it genuine/disingenuous?

[jok3rbatman]

Do you believe in curses, evil and good spirits, or guardian angels ?

My aunt from my dads side of the family said that our family is cursed and has been for centuries. She said she was told that there's a portal of evil terrorizing my family and it's been ongoing for centuries. She said that's why we have the worse luck with our health and relationships. My friends aunt told me that she sensed an energy from me when I walked in the house and immediately someone from above was talking to her about me, saying that there's evil haunting me BUT that I have a guardian angel with many positive energies and spirits from above fighting these demons, trying to keep them away. She started asking me questions about myself and said a lot of the reasons I'm going through my struggle is because if the negative spirits. She said it could be a lot worse, but because I have angels protecting me It isn't. Another aunt from my moms side told me that our side of the family has always been blessed and her neighbor told her the aura in her house is so peaceful and positive. She said she sensed that our family has always protected by positive energies and spirits. When I seen my aunts neighbor a few weeks ago she said she sensed an unbalance of energy. She said she can sense different energies and that's what's creating an unbalance in my life. My ex seen a psychic for a reading, she told him we were soulmates and that we were meant for each other, mind you I wasn't even in the room with him. But she also told him that there was a negative energy around him that's will try to break us up and bring him down too. She offered to remove them but we didn't really believe it, plus she charged extra for that lol. When my grandma passed away, about 2 weeks later I had a very real vivid dream and in my dream I was hold my grandma and crying because I didn't want to let her go, I begged her to not leave me and to not let go has I hugged her close. I could feel her in my arms and I could still smell her in my dream, it felt so real. My grandma told me to not cry and to not worry because she wasn't going anywhere, she told me she was always gonna be by my side. She wasn't leaving. I cried so much that I woke up crying, still smelling her scent fresh in my room. A few weeks later my sister had a dream, but instead she was on the phone with my grandma. My grandma was telling her to watch over me and to make sure that I was okay. She said that my grandma just kept asking about me and telling her to watch me. I thought about all of these things I experienced and all the things the different people told me and I started to think, is it real, can I be cursed from my dads side and being protected my angels from my moms side of the family? I've gained and lost a lot of everything in my life. And everyone always says I have bad luck. Bad credit because of my dad, my cars always breakdown, my mom has kicked me out her house several times, my family moved to Florida, I live in a shitty room, my boyfriend left me, I've had some unusual sickness that I can't even explain are possible, never been allergic to anything and now my body is having an allergic reaction to something, I got anxiety out of nowhere, escaped a party from a shoot out on Halloween, seen my friends brother get shot in front of me, plus many more shit. I can go on and on and on. Everything had always got better in some way though eventually. I fight these demons because I'm not a type of person to give up, that's why I fight for love and life. I know what I love and I appreciate my life and no one should let anything from stopping from that. What do you think? Do you think I'm crazy or it's just coincidence that these random events happened?

[johndunham-blog]

People split quickly. The whole friends thing? That never works. You're always jealous of her, she's always jealous of you. You both try and move on quick, do your own thing, but they're planted in your mind. And they'll sit there for a long time. But after a while, those bitter feelings, become happy memories. Memories of a perfect time in your life when you had the world in your hand. You'll miss her, she'll miss you. You can both act like you've moved on but you haven't. You put up a front, but you both know the truth. I mean what is true love if not letting one another go because you're toxic for each other. Both being young and immature makes anything long-lasting a tough split. They will both eventually grow up, say they'll be friends, and it won't happen. They'll run into each other every couple of months, half smile, wave, memories flashing back through their minds. But they won't talk. They'll mosey along, meeting whatever, or whoever is now the next stage in their cycle. That's life isn't it? Nothing is really permanent. Enjoy everything while you can. I'm sure something real is out there. But who am I to search for such a thing with so many years left to live.