#tfios

[thechaotickalamari]

Hazel: I cope by pretending I’m in a different genre. Augustus: What genre? Hazel: Dark comedy with unreliable narrators.

[thechaotickalamari]

Hazel: Are you being dramatic on purpose? Augustus: Always.

[aamtreeanalogy]

we draw cigarettes, we don't smoke them.

[drpepper-queen]

I’m gonna need Connor Storrie to make like Augustus Waters and hold that cigarette like it’s a metaphor

[twofagschillininahottub]

Humans, or most of them at least, have an obsession with finding Meaning, with finding Purpose, in life. We desperately reach for religion, wealth, other people, anything that makes our existence feel like it Means Something. We, speaking in broad terms, feel worthless if we cannot prove that our lives are led in the name of something Bigger than us. And that's always confused me.

Do we criticize trees for not changing the world? For never uprooting themselves and making a name for themself? Do we call them useless if they simply sit there their whole lives and produce oxygen? Trees exist just to exist. They exist because they were born. There is no deeper meaning, the Reason behind their life is that...when two trees really love each other...

I feel the same should go for humans. We were born because a sperm cell and an egg cell combined into a living, breathing organism. And the Reason behind our life? Is just to live. Maybe there isn't a Purpose, maybe there isn't a Meaning, maybe there isn't a God. We may not be a part of something Bigger. But is that a bad thing? Is it a curse to live life for the sake of living it? To breathe for the sake of breathing?

To quote The Fault In Our Stars, "We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either" (John Green). (Yes, I'm obsessed with John Green's books, fucking sue me). And he's right. It is rare that we will change the world, that our name will be remembered for generations to come (unless, of course, we eat the Mona Lisa). But that isn't a crime, that isn't a failure. We can change our world, the lives of the people around us, and that can be enough.

The bottom line is, I don't understand humanity's quest for a deeper meaning. We were born, we will live, we will die. That's what life is. And that's not a bad thing. Our purpose, our lowercase-p purpose, is to live our lives. There doesn't need to be something Out There waiting for us. There's a life right here with us, and our only job is to live it.

I don't know if that made sense. This is just something I wanted to talk about.

[thiscosywitch]

that's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt

[plagg-supremacy]

RIP Augustus "I fear oblivion" Waters you would've loved Disney's Coco

[quesaritogirl]

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.” - John Green