Leave Alone

side blog | poetry, lyrics, art and music

[deanwinchesterapologist]

college isn't real. Money isn't real. You know what's real??? ? Live music

[you-dont-belong-here]

Picture the ocean. No. Picture the entire thing, all at once. You are not doing it. It's okay. One day something terrible will happen, and I will not be prepared.

James Tadd Adcox

[secret--psalms--saturn]

Theyre right how AM I gonna be an octopus about this

[gothredy]

[the-quasar-hero]

It’s extremely fucked up that some ppl try to make you feel stupid and immature for hoping for a better world. You say you want world peace and mfs think you need a pacifier; dawg, I just don’t want ppl dying from violence. This idea that ppl simply must die as casualties of war is misanthropic to say the least.

[romancenjoyer]

i’m doing really well for someone who goes through the five stages of grief every day

[peuralehto-blog]

The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh

[traumatised-mum]

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

[anisetheapothecary]

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

[malcolmcooks]

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[you-dont-belong-here]

Sometimes I think I’m developing a new severe mental illness but it turns out I just needed to go outside and drink some water. Many such cases

[peachhyg0gh]

not to be dramatic but i miss everyone and wish everything was different

[you-dont-belong-here]

sooooo I thought we were past this but here we are again *turns to mirror* 🫵 I thought I told you to apply for jobs

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[you-dont-belong-here]

I hate free will what do you mean I could change it all in a second and therefore have no excuse to be complacent in misery

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[cucurb]

but then the dove of hope began its downward slope, and i believed for a moment that my chances were approaching to be grabbed! but as it came down near, so did a weary tear… i thought it was a bird but it was just a paper bag!!!

[propertiesofjoy]

rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet