Winter Dreamer

20 yrs. she/her. INFP. ✌️

[myvalzpival]

okej, tak já to teda řeknu:

tvoje ramena tu nejsou od toho, aby nesla tíhu úplně všech světovejtch průserů každou vteřinu tvýho nesnesitelnýho bytí.

za humnama válka. za rohem obrovská energeticko-ekonomická krize. za oknem debilní politická situace. na chodbě rodinný obtíže. ve skříni osobní průsery. a do toho se tě snaží každej den přesvědčit Amerika, že musíš řešit i její sračky.

jdi na procházku. užívej si, že je všude zase hromada pylu a do pusy ti vlítla moucha. jdi vyvenčit psa. kup si tu mikinu, kterou už dlouho chceš, i když není z udržitelný módy a tu značku vlastní totální kikot. přečti si tu knížku, na kterou se už rok těšíš, i když je to brak, jdi do kina na marvelovskej film, i když je to předpotopní zábava. měj na sobě dva dny stejný ponožky. vyhoď ten kelímek do smíšenýho odpadu, protože taška na plast je plná a ty dneska nemáš mentální kapacitu ji vynýst.

podivej, nemůžeš furt řešit všechno. ať se budeš snažit jak chceš, nikdy nebudeš stoprocentně neproblematické stvoření. tak se na to aspoň na pár hodin týdně vyser, dělej to, co tě baví a co ti přináší štěstí. je super mít přehled, je skvělý žít podle svého nejlepšího mínění, ale všechno má svý meze a, slovy čtyřlístku, když proud nejde, tak to nejde. a s některejma věcma prostě fakt nic neuděláš, i když o nich budeš každejten hodiny číst na novinkách.

soustřeď se na sebe. a nenech se nikým vmluvit do toho, že tvoje ramena jsou tu od toho, aby nesla tíhu každýho průseru na světě.

[inkskinned]

i know people are good because of this: the universe often assigns me side quests. in a circular strangeness; despite my inability to locate my-own-anything, i am almost-always finding someone else's lost things. dogs, coats, phones, cash, laptops. it happens so often it's almost tiring; suddenly being looped into a tiny amount of detective work.

but when i'm with other people who are not used to this: the response is almost invariably delight. yes, maybe they are simply thrilled by the mystery. it's just... they light up so much. i think maybe more... i think they like the opportunity to do something kind.

a few weeks ago, i was at a bar and i found a wallet as soon as we stepped outside. i felt nervous to ask for help, worried i would be holding up the night. i picked it up and said go on without me, i should help this get back to its home.

instead, three people pulled out their phones - to find him on facebook, to help cancel his credit cards. two people went back into the bar to tell the bartender, two others went calling down the street. group texts, facebook posts, instagram stories. people, without even seeing what happened, start offering help to me. fifteen minutes and: someone knows someone who knows the guy. the cheer that went up - just for finding him, just for this small thing. someone gets him on the phone. strangers dance around me, hopping on their feet - are you the girl that found that wallet? good for you, that's a good thing you're doing/same thing happened to me and somebody did what you're doing and i thank god everyday for people like you/i can't believe you found him so fast this is so exciting

i gave it back to him in a parking lot. i watched his shoulders sag with relief. there was cash in it still - he checked the pocket, and then sheepishly held the money out to me. i didn't take it. i held up my hands. "it's no problem, man. i know you'd do the same for me."

i don't know him, to be honest. i don't know if he is the same kind of person i am. but he nodded at me.

and i know people are good. i know people are good, because the way this story ends isn't surprising. we wave goodbye awkwardly. my friend loops their arm around me.

"i can't believe we got it back to him," they said. "i'm going to be riding that high for weeks."

[ruhlare-deactivated20220822]

Maybe it's not about asking God to open all the doors, but asking Him to give you the strength to go through the doors that are already open

[visenya-targarye]

czech republic making the statue of david explode in front of the italians... like aren't you worried it'll make them mad?

[sire-rizku]

doufám, že příští rok při vystoupení itálie vybouchne socha svatýho václava

[bellybuttonblue-deactivated2021]

[sentientcitizen]

Here’s the opposite story, though. With apologies because I don’t have the book in front of me, so I may get some details wrong, but I read this “Irena’s Children“ by Tilar J. Mazzeo.

Irena lived in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, and dedicated her life to rescuing Jewish children from the Ghetto, and her story is complicated in a lot of ways but - well, this story isn’t actually about Irena, per se.

It’s about a bus driver.

It’s about a day when she’s traveling across town by bus with a very young Jewish child, and partway to their destination the child looks up and asks a question - in Yiddish. and the whole bus goes quiet, because everyone knows what that means. And Irena thinks, okay, we’re going to die here today.

And she’s running through her options - all of them bad - and suddenly the bus stops, and the bus driver announces that there’s been a mechanical failure and the bus needs to return to the depot immediately. Everyone off, please.

And she stands and goes to get off the bus and the driver says - not you two. Sit down. So she sits down as everyone else leaves, because, well, what else is she going to do? the options are all still bad, at this point.

and when the bus is empty the bus driver says,

“Where do you need to go?”

And then he drives them as close to their destination as he can, and lets them off, and drives away. And Irena lives, and the kid lives, and they never cross paths again.

So a janitor got three people killed, and a bus driver saved two lives - not to mention all the other lives indirectly saved because Irena was able to continue her work.

I think about that almost every day now, to be honest.

We can’t all be Irena. I couldn’t be Irena. She was in a unique place with very specific skills and connections that let her do what she did. I am just one mentally ill librarian. I can’t be her. But - I can be the bus driver. Or I could be the janitor. Because it doesn’t matter what your job is. It doesn’t matter who you are. In a world like this, every single one of us has the opportunity to do massive harm or massive good. We can save lives or end them.

And that’s scary. but it’s also very comforting? at least for me. Because at the end of the day it means this: no matter of how small and helpless and unimportant you feel, you’re never powerless in the face of great evil.

You can choose to be the bus driver.

[southfarthing]

you ever just have the lord of the rings urge???? just sitting there and then suddenly your heart is about to burst out of sheer love for hobbits and maps and adventures and true friends and haunting histories and distant realms and sacrifice and loss and perseverance and loneliness and strength and horror and bravery and fear and bravery despite the fear and mercy and kindness and twinkling hope and reunions and healing and love and returning home and not quite really returning home and what is home really and learning to live anyway through it all

[do-you-have-a-flag]

*thunk*

[tnxgodimginger]

I wanted to make them young and still hopeful, freshly promoted, before Levi, before politics, before everything.

Just golden besties.

[officialunitedstates]

FACT OF THE DAY:  zebras’ stripes are not always black and white.  sometimes they are black and orange

[throwing-lego]

this is a giraffe

[renthony]

I have known atheists who genuinely believe vaccines cause autism, tout the benefits of essential oils, and replaced a Christian fear of the Devil with a fear of "chemicals."

I know religious people who work in healthcare and STEM, do regular labwork, author scientific papers, and speak at universities as experts in their field.

Equating atheism with "science" and religion with "anti-science" is inaccurate, bigoted, and shows ignorance about religion outside (typically American) fundamentalist Protestantism.

[janeeyreofmanderley]

As someone studying theology I sm

always baffled, when people assume I have problems with science (especially the theory of evolution). Like….WHY ???????? Why why why would I? Religion and science are not rivals. They are not rivalling concepts to answer the same question. They research different questions. So while the theory of evolution for example tries to find answers in “how?” Life as we know it came to be. Religion asks the question “why?” . Both are interesting and valid but fundamentally different questions.

[ashstfu]

so many books so little time but not in a poetic quirky way just in a very anxious and very overwhelmed way

[the-autistic-system]

I am simply a fictional man's whore.

[myattemptstobecleverneverwork]

[zandraart]

mezzanine

[kakademona]

Nobody can convince me Hux is dead I stanned Darth Maul for the last 20 years and that guy survived being cut in half because he was too angry to die and you tell the pettiest bitch in the galaxy died from a blaster fart I think not

[nyctophorum]

[sasheenka]

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