The View From The Passenger Seat

Hey, my name is Julie and this is my personal blog. On a given day you might find: Hunger Games. Everlark. Jennifer Lawrence. Harry Potter. Disney.  Travel. Quotes. Opinions. Life. Being in college means frequent failure to dedicate necessary time to my blog, but enjoy regardless!

[serious]

be with someone who looks at you like they look at a menu

misjudgments (via misjudgments)

[galentines]

sometimes i want to pull my hair out because i want to see just ONE female character i can relate to in terms of their romantic/sex life

i want to see a girl in her mid twenties who has never been kissed

i want to see a girl who is confused because she has literally no experience

a girl that has panic attacks when she thinks of sex and cant stop thinking about what kissing is like while also being terrified of it

a girl who cant figure out her sexuality because she’s never gotten to try

a girl who self destructs because shes terrified of how bigger her baggage gets with age

i’m sick of seeing woman in tv and movies who date and have sex and still have relationship hangups, not because that doesnt exist but because i cant relate to those women

i want to turn on the tv and see a 25 year old woman who has never been with anyone, was genuinely not looked at for a long time and has become terrified of attention, who’s anxiety cheats them out of dating, who greets every birthday with this feeling of dread in the pit of their stomach because they’re getting older and older and it feels weirder and more wrong with every passing year

i know i’m not the only woman like this, but with the way the media is, it’s maybe the most alienating baggage i carry. everywhere i look, it’s weird that this is my experience. i feel ashamed and i feel scared that i one day have to tell a person to their face that i’m am adult who has never had a first kiss. its terrifying and consuming and confusing and awful. you start to believe it isnt meant for you - not just sex, or intimacy, but fucking love itself. because you dont turn on the tv and see people like you. “unlucky in love” means slightly clumsy and loud on dates and fear of commitment. its a quirky girl who probably has had sex with multiple people and just ~cant figure it out~!!!!!

i want a girl who feels so alone because she literally always has been

that’s what i wanna see

[shinyandloud]

People on such short trips usually don’t stick around long enough to realize how ineffective they are being.  In Uganda, I got used to seeing groups of young people come for week-long visits at the orphanage where taught English. They would play with the kids, give them a bracelet or something, and then leave all-smiles, thinking they just saved Africa. I was surprised when the day after the first group left, exactly zero of the kids were wearing the bracelet they had received the day prior. The voluntourists  left thinking they gave the kids something they didn’t have before (and with bragging rights for life). But the kids didn’t care, because what they really wanted was school uniforms, their school fees to be paid, guaranteed meals, basic healthcare, and the like — the basics.   Worse, they can even be harmful to children who struggle with abandonment issues.  This should not be understated; have you ever considered the negative impact it routinely has on kids after they bond with someone for a week, and then that person disappears from their life? If your justification for going on these trips is “seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces”, then you’re part of the problem.

7 Reasons Why Your Two Week Trip To Haiti Doesn’t Matter: Calling Bull on “Service Trips” - The Almost Doctor’s Channel (via shinyandloud)

[realitytvgifs]

[i-am-america-deactivated2016121]

I love these memes.

[rabidjedi-bro]

Never not reblog sassy-sarcastic Jesus lovingly putting people on the right track.

[entertainmentweekly]

My dear terrified graduates, you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives. The stories you are about to live are the ones you will be telling your children, and grandchildren, and therapists.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s commencement speech at Penn (via entertainmentweekly)

[petr1kov]

keeping up with the american elections while not being american like

[dryyoureyes-startbelieving]

Someday you will look back and know exactly why it had to happen.

I never needed to hear this more than I had to right now (via awkwarddly)

[scribnerbooks]

[ferrisbueller]

this is great

[vaguelycoolgrey-deactivated2016]

I love this

[wnq-anonymous]

Saw you at your worst and still thought you were the best.

Anonymous (via wnq-anonymous)

[catstiel]

harry potter is FAKE

set in the 90s but there were 0 (zero) chokers or butterfly clips explain to me This

[marauders-hp-deactivated2016081]

“Parvati scowled and removed a large ornamental butterfly from the end of her plait” (pg. 247, The Goblet of Fire)

[frostingpeetaswounds]

[mulan-tinkerbell]

so I was on the jungle cruise at disney world and we floated past a waterfall and the tour guide said “you know what’s amazing about that waterfall? it’s the only thing at disney that’s not frozen”

[peetamellarkthebaker]

Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks.

[victors-mockingjays]

CLIP OF WOODY AND ELIZABETH MAKING OUT!!!

[awesome-picz]

Photographer Transforms Famous Landmarks Using Paper Cutouts.