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Amie - 23 - UK - INTP 2nd year medical student, eventually I want to be a psychiatrist and researcher. I'm obsessed with portrait painting, all things scandinavian and have a thing for pale skin and thighs.

[lifethrucrystallizedeyes]

Fi’s not going to kill a cat because they wouldn’t want to be killed.

Fe’s not going to kill a cat because the cat doesn’t want to be killed.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[lazyyogi]

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)

[fleurdulys]

Cynthia - Moses Soyer

1954

[kriptodepresija-deactivated2015]

[lavenderdolls-deactivated201611]

plants // crystals

[mioumioumioumiou]

Preserved Bodies at siriraj medical museum Bangkok.

[micdotcom]

Here’s what politics looks like if you take out the men 

Out of the 22 people running for president in 2016, only two of them are women. Elle U.K. is confronting this imbalance directly through the magazine’s #MoreWomen campaign, launched on Oct. 1 to celebrate women’s global power. Their eye-opening launch video shows how easy it is to make full rooms seemingly sparse.

[parisima-deactivated20181125]

Seeing people outside of the Jewish and Muslim/Middle Eastern faith and culture wear the Hand of Hamsa makes me so uncomfortable that’s literally a sacred symbol of protection to us

[93-7]

they wear the hamsa not realizing we wear it to protect us from them

[cav-core]

Isn’t it used in Greek culture too, though?

[emperor-of-matzah-deactivated20]

Not that I know of. I think you’re thinking of the evil eye.

[postgraduategoth]

So you want to deny everyone else protection from evil? Although I have got to admit I am hugely entertained that this is apparently the only thing people in the Middle East can apparently agree on. Perhaps there is hope after all.

In all seriousness, chances are you casually consume or indulge in some cultural experience (music, clothing, art, films, etc) that spring from a far deeper place in their origin’s collective unconscious than you can ever understand, but nobody is calling you out on it. It’s just the nature of a multi-cultural world. Culture is mean to be shared, not hoarded; it travels, it grows and it evolves. That’s how it survives.

You are more than welcome to wear mala beads or a figure of Quan Yin (the Buddhist lady of infinite compassion)  because we’re mellow like that. There are bigger issues at stake than squabbling over religious jewelry, Namaste, y'all.

[wnq-writers]

So you think smoking another cigarette will burn her memory from your brain? You think the smoke will consume her? You smoked 29 cigarettes and it looks like your love for her is consuming your entire being.

atelophobiaxx  (via wnq-writers)

[c0ntemplations]

Make friends with people who aren’t your age. Hang out with people whose first language isn’t the same as yours. Get to know someone who doesn’t doesn’t come from your social class. This is how you see the world. This is how you grow.

note to self (via alunit)

@freshht0death @soberforaday

(via y0ungbl0odd)

[itsbyrosie]

[taylorswift]

Meredith is allergic to joy.

[whatireallylearntinmedschool]

The bigger picture

I think that for some people, heading straight from high school to study medicine at uni  is a bit of a mistake. Or maybe not a mistake but… harder, a reality shock. You don’t really have the maturity and experience to understand what you’re working towards, what the rest of your life will entail. And it’s not your fault - almost your entire life has been focused on getting through your education - studying, revision, tests, assignments, rules, a system, hoops to jump through for prizes and praise. The journey to med school is about getting the best results, academically and extra-curricularly out-performing competitive applicants.

You’re chucked into med school and you think it’s more of the same; studying hard, all-nighters in the library, trying to be top in your year as you’ve always been. But it’s different; you’ve jumped from a garden pond to the open sea, and if you keep focusing only on getting the best exam results and trying to be the perfect little academic you’ll drown.

There has to be a point where you let go of all that and realise what you are really working for; not some high school course with an impressive, pretty certificate at the end, but an actual vocation with staggering amounts of responsibility. Patients won’t care whether you got an A or a B in that case report or you can draw the neatest diagrams or have perfectly organised notes. Neither will your tutors - no one’s going to give you a pat on the head and a gold star. It can be frustrating and disillusioning to feel you’re not the best any more. Being a ‘grown-up’ is hard. But sooner or later you’ll have a moment where you really understand what you’ve got yourself into. It might be your first time taking a full history alone; sitting in a clinic and relating to some aspect of a patient’s life; stood in the operating theatre in awe of the violence and power in the surgeon’s hands; bringing a cup of tea to a lonely patient on the wards. And suddenly it feels very real, and your high school days were a lifetime ago. What you’re doing isn’t about ‘you’ anymore, or about impressing anyone or getting the highest test scores as if your life were a computer game. You see the bigger picture.

That feeling… It’s terrifying and exhilarating and makes everything worthwhile.

[blue-sky-and-rain]

Now that’s how you deal with hate

[casualtyfandom]

I love this so much

[huffpost]

Margaret Cho: Trolls Who Call Me ‘Fat And Ugly’ Are Admitting Defeat

Margaret Cho has a simple philosophy for dealing with degrading comments about herself: If you’re debating a woman and you stoop to calling her “fat” or “ugly,” you’ve already lost the argument.

The comedian explains how to turn misogynist attacks into a “more palatable and pleasurable” experience.

[surnamecommasarah]

[vethox]