IDIC

I am Surak and everything would have turned out way better if the Vulcans had understood my sarcasm.

[perfectquote]

“If you break someone and they still wish you the best, you’ve lost the greatest thing for you”

— Unknown

[milky-ink]

What's this? Let's see. I feel sexy!

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[perfectquote]

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via perfectquote)

[tu-surak]

But the moment we begin to believe in a thing ourselves, that moment we begin easily to overstate it; and the moment our souls become serious, our words become a little wild.

G. K. Chesterton

[t4tstarvingdog]

*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

[thedoubteriswise]

so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things

[tu-surak]

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[thisisadecisionimayregret]

made a uquiz to figure out what your basic assumption about the world is

what is the truth at the center of your universe?

there's 8 possible results and no song lyric or pop culture questions, enjoy

[ousia-poetica]

So beautiful was our love, that when people saw us walking past, we were love and art in person. By Anastasia Trusova on Instagram.

[perfectquote]

To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.

Stephen Levine (via perfectquote)

[derangedrhythms]

So, if you do recall me, please forget me.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters ⁠— Lois Ames, 4th June 1965

[perfectquote]

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via perfectquote)

[mephistopheles]

[libraford]

It was kind of interesting to me that out of all the people in our training group, the ones that were the quickest to form social bonds were the people from way out in the country and the city people just kind of quietly kept to themselves.

But I was definitely accepted as one of the bumpkins.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Oh! This is actually an example of Rural vs Urban manners.

In rural/less densely populated areas, the polite thing is to offer people your time and social energy which is why country people will talk your ear off at the slightest acquaintence- it’s kind of lonely when you have to make an effort to see people, so you Make An Effort ™

In Urban/Densely populated areas, you’re meeting people whether you want to or not, because you are physically close to each other constantly. So the Polite Thing there is to kind of ignore other people and keep strictly to business, so you’re not imposing upon thier (probably already drained) soical spoons.

The city folks will warm right up to you once they get to know you well enough to know that talking to you won’t piss you off.

[longdogsinc]

I grew up rural and live in the SF Bay Area now, and this is exactly how it is.

Appropriate city behavior is about *efficiency*, creating the least friction possible in every interaction because everyone has somewhere to be and is trying to pretend they don’t have strangers in their personal bubble *all day long*.

In SF, chatting with the bank teller a second longer than necessary is rude AF because there are 10 people in line and the teller is running behind and you are inconviencing *everyone*. They will deal with 1000 customers today and they genuinely don’t have it in them to form a friendly relationship with you.

In the little forest where I grew up you could stop your car in the middle of a one lane street to chat up a friend on the sidewalk. Any other cars would just go around you. There wasn’t much traffic, it was fine. If you’re one of 50 people the bank teller is gonna see today and there’s no line, it’s actually nice to ask how their day has been and commiserate about the roadwork at the single downtown traffic light.

City & country folks are operating under very different pressures and both are “right”, but it can be hard for city people to remember how to just…shoot the shit with strangers.

[quotespile]

Most people would never admit it, but they’d been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.

Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via quotespile)

[perfectquote]

If you’re feeling down, don’t waste energy resisting the feeling. Be present and trace the emotion to its source.

Unknown (via perfectquote)

[perfectquote]

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Franz Kafka (via perfectquote)