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Product Placement
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
if i look back, i am lost
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@tamaraslunax
Let it drift away with the waves of time, memories can slowly fade. Don’t focus on forgetting, focus on moving forward. Don’t focus on change. Just be. Right here, right now is a gift. All of eternity is happening at this moment. The entire universe revolves around this moment. You are here, breathing. Isn’t that wonderful?
lol you ever feel like your presence is so easily replaceable in everyone’s lives. like, my general existence don’t really matter in the long run and I’m just filler.
Okay, but this is fundamentally not true, and I’m going to explain why.
So as human beings we are each collectively made up of all the things we have ever experienced, even those things that we have consciously forgotten, like everything before the age of three/four/five/whatever. I think everyone knows how damaging a single throw-away line from someone can be, how a handful of words can haunt you for years and years and completely alter your behavior/mode of thought. The same is true of positive things, although for some weird reason we seem to be more strongly affected by the negative. Thought for another post.
Anyway, so it’s like this;
The tiniest things each of us do has a ripple effect. Things we don’t even notice, ripples we’ll never see, but are still there. Someone who overhears a snippet of your conversation with your friends is amused or horrified or inspired to consider an entirely new opinion or idea. A stranger sees your bright red shirt and smiles because that color has some meaning for them; that moment of happiness can alter an entire day. Someone sees you reading a book they like and gets that glittery feeling of knowing someone else in the world likes the same book (I get this one all the time). Look, you know this, these tiny happy moments shift the axis of your entire day sometimes, it’s not super rational but there you go, if I see someone reading my favourite book on the bus I’m going to be smiling and have an easier time dealing with school that day.
Or maybe you were the quiet kid at the back of the classroom, and the person who always felt guilty for never going to talk to you ends up making more of an effort at uni and changing somebody else’s life. Maybe an opinion you expressed in class triggered a revelation in someone else’s head, set them down the path of becoming someone entirely different. One day someone notices that you never seem to eat lunch and spots a friend’s eating disorder because now they’re thinking about the topic.
But let’s go back to the ripple effects, let’s think about a trail of dominoes. You smile at the person who makes you your coffee, and it’s this moment of relief, of shared humanity. You don’t even remember three seconds later but that person has an easier time dealing with rude customers the rest of the day. That person is then more patient with someone who’s having a genuinely horrible day, and that person goes away able to breathe a little better, and so on and on and on
Just from a three second smile
You hold the door open for a stranger, and they don’t say thank you but they catch their train/bus/taxi and if they hadn’t, at best they’d have snapped at more people that day and at worst they could have been late or missed something important.
The sight of you in a crowd makes someone think of their son or daughter, and they call them, maybe they haven’t talked in forever but today they call.
The book you buy, the money you spend, affects the lives of hundreds, maybe thousands of people.
That throw-away comment you said to your friend, that thing you don’t even remember, is still in their head all these years later, the compliment or the insult, the show you made them watch, the doodle on their notebook, it’s all in there. Everyone you talk to is someone different because of it - minutely different, almost unnoticeably different, but it’s there, and you know what, you have no idea the effect wearing your hair in a ponytail today had on the world, you can go the whole day without talking to someone and years later someone will remember your silence, will watch for it again, will catch it in someone else. Your brothers and sisters will treat their children differently because they grew up with you, and those children will become people they wouldn’t have been if you’d never existed, and they will make their own ripples, down and down and down forever. Are you kidding, we don’t even have to be born to alter someone’s life, think of the enormous ramifications a miscarriage can have on someone, on a couple, on their friends and family, and tell me that somehow you breathing and dreaming and living, even if you live the most boring closeted minimalist life humanly possible, can have less of an effect on the world than that of someone who really wasn’t born.
Just because you don’t notice the effect you have on the world - even if the world doesn’t notice the effect you have on it - does not mean that there is no effect. You are not filler. We’re not all going to find the cure to cancer but the universe would be an impossibly different place without even a single one of us.
Wow. I love this.
This is a really thoughtful post
Perfect beyond words
When you dream that you’re in love with somebody and the feelings don’t go away when you wake up
(note to self)
wear soft clothes
swim in the rain
embroider, draw, and knit to keep your hands busy
go outside
look at the moon
be nice to yourself
have a light heart
everything will be ok
I can spend three days locked in my house, reading books and drawing and doing music and then suddenly I have a desire to put on a fancy dress and just run to every party that I know for the entire night- and then go back and lock myself up.
Lou Doillon (via catwalkcats)
A black lullaby
Let’s jump into the unknown the darkness that feels so alone It’s like a black night sky no stars no moon just me and my life
A leap of faith into a brand new age leaving behind my fears A goodbye kiss to those days, to prove to them that I have changed to never return again to this state of hate.
An ember sparks the return of a fire burning inside my veins a passion wild flames it opens up a brand new phase a happy place
as delicate as ancient lace the forming of a new age takes place i am thankful for my dark days but will burn them away with sun rays
goodbye black lullaby I thank you for shaping my life I thank you for teaching me how to cry I thank you for opening up my eyes to this world full of battled skies goodbye black lullaby
8.8.16 Golden morning
Girls get the message from very early on that its most important how they look, that their value, their worth depends on that (Barbies perfect figure and flawless skin/hair, tv shows in which only perfectly skinny and beautiful girls are shown, except of course for the girls that portray the nerds and the losers who are often portrayed as overweight people with bad skin and greasy hair.... The models, magazines, strip figures, coloring books, video games, music videos, etc..etc. It's all about the body, the hair, the skin, the clothes and never about the brain.. ) As a result, boys get the message that this is what's most important from girls, their appearance.. This impacted me personally very much.. I felt like my worth was determined by my weight and developed an eating disorder. And it's not just me, statistics state that around 65% of all women are struggling with some sort of eating disorder.. But what do you expect with modern media photoshopping already underweight models to look even skinnier than they already are? What do you expect when modern media sets standards for women that are so high that everybody starts to feel that they will never be good enough? We rarely see women portrayed as powerful strong personalities who can accomplish anything and everything as log as they work hard. We rarely hear about women who have obtained a high position in the work force, who have worked their way to the top. In 2015 , female full time workers still earn on average 21% less then men. We need feminism not to hate on men, but because we need equality within both genders. We need feminism because this world has to be a place where girls can be raised without feeling like they should look a certain way or act a certain way to be considered beautiful, where girls feel like beauty is more important than brains, a world where girls have just as much chance as guys to become powerful in the work force. A world where there is equality between all human beings and where no one gender, or skin color, or anything having to do with something else than once intelligence, kindness and drive to work hard determines how much money you can make and what kind of position you are able to get in the world field. I want to create awareness about feminism. I want people to learn that feminism is just about wanting equality between men and women. That feminism is about empowering women so they do not have to grow up and live in a world where they are told to look and act a certain way, in a world where they are not able to get the same jobs or positions or pay as men. #feminism Thanks to @kristenleotsakou for talking about the documentary miss representation which lit the spark in me that drove me to write this caption. #missrepresentation #equality #genderequality #proudfeminist
His life is in your hands. When you consume eggs you decide to throw him over the edge to be shredded to pieces fully conscious. Will you be his saviour or ultimate demise?
This is heartbreaking. Go vegan, guys.
what does eating eggs and this have to do with each other?
@fawnfreckles in the egg industry, male chicks are killed because 1. they cannot lay eggs and 2. their bodies aren’t suitable for chicken-meat production.
there are two breeds of poultry: layer hens and chickens that are bred for meat production. layer hens are bred to only produce eggs, whereas meat chickens are bred to grow abnormally large.
so, shortly after the chicks are sexed, the males are either suffocated or shredded to death because they’re seen as worthless byproducts of egg production.
Life’s a bit funny sometimes. How it can leave you feeling a bit weird, a bit out of sorts, a bit uninspired and lacking motivation all of a sudden. I could blame it on things that aren’t the real cause, which is a feeling. A feeling I get often enough. That everything I try to do is a waste of time, that sense of hopelessness and pointlessness. What am I doing? What am I here for? Truth is, you’re only as capable of doing something as you believe you are. You decide what your purpose is. And you go after it. Don’t waste your breath and your energy and your precious time doing anything less than what you want to do, what you NEED to do. If you think you’re a failure because the way you imagined your dreams to come true didn’t work out then think again, there is still so much opportunity to shine. ✨💛 I’ve had a lot of unplanned time on my hands this week to think about what I really want and I realized I had forgotten about that for a while there. Now it’s time to get back on track, and I hope if you’re feeling a bit lost and unsure right now, that this is a wake up call to yourself to go after your wildest dreams and hopes. Life’s short man 😌 (ps I have next to no idea what this photo looks like as my phone screen is broken but I hope it’s as soothing as the moment I captured it was) 💦
افتح فمك فقط إن كان ما ستقوله أجمل من الصمت Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.
(via mandystasiak)
okay so in psychology years ago we learnt that it’s common for companies to put women in charge when there’s a predicted downfall so that they could be all ha see women suck at being in charge. and I just find it interesting how the UK is gonna have a female PM right after Brexit so like years from now people are gonna be like “the country saw some of its worst years under a woman” when it was men that fucked it up and then ran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
