#you exist here

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This important point that Guinan was projecting to Picard immediately made me think of this Trek moment:

Sisko: I never left this ship. Jennifer: You exist here. Sisko: I exist here. I don't know if you can understand. I see her like this every time I close my eyes. In the darkness, in the blink of an eye, I see her like this. Jennifer: None of your past experiences helped prepare you for this consequence. Sisko: And I have never figured out how to live without her. Jennifer: So you choose to exist here. It is not linear. Sisko: No. It's not linear.

"You exist here" - One of the saddest lines in all of Trek.

[jazzypizzaz]

SISKO: I never left this ship. JENNIFER: You exist here. SISKO: I exist here. I don't know if you can understand. I see her like this every time I close my eyes. In the darkness, in the blink of an eye, I see her like this. JENNIFER: None of your past experiences helped prepare you for this consequence. SISKO: And I have never figured out how to live without her. JENNIFER: So you choose to exist here. It is not linear. SISKO: No. It's not linear.

[lela-dax]

“can you get a sore throat from crying too much” and other embarrassing things to google while studying abroad, after two weeks of agonizing homesickness

[lela-dax]

“I guess what I’m saying is that I find it hard to belong in this world & so resort, quite simply, to appreciating the aesthetic consumption of my coffee each morning, before I wander like a timid toad out into the world, hopping at every small breach of kindness & showering thanks on all I should not have to be thankful for: the diesel truck taking wide its turn so I might not be turned into someone whose obituary reads, with just the slightest tact: he died doing what he loved, waiting to cross the street with two feet already in the street.“

—Devin Kelly, Self Care In The Land Of A Thousand Horses

[lela-dax]

Mary Ruefle, The Most of It

I cannot articulate why exactly, but this paragraph is entirely representative of my heart and the kind of writing that makes me want to weep