Thoughts For Your Thoughts

"I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

[arabwife]

S/o to everyone who’s tryna get their life together. Working on yourself is the hardest part of life. The rest comes after.

[nephritebabie]

pick your poison LMAOOO

[twocubes]

trying to get back to normal after my response to my problems was reading various pieces of fiction continuously for like a month at the expense of everything that wasn't eating

[timeimages]

Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer (Andrey A. Tarkovsky, 2019)

[noorshirazie]

“Discover the uprising within yourself. Shake off the doubt that others dare cloak around your resilient shoulders.”

— Noor Shirazie

[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

[abcsofadhd]

My counselor once told me to make sure I wasn’t doing things to distract myself from the boredom rather than try to sate it. I feel its one of the most important things he ever said to me.

When I’m distracting myself from the boredom, I read or game excessively so I don’t feel the emptiness of boredom. It’s a short term thing, and it only staves the boredom as long as I’m doing the thing.

When I’m sating myself from the boredom, I pursue things I am genuinely interested in and so find myself feeling fulfilled and happier for a longer period of time. Even if I stop doing it temporarily, I don’t immediately fall apart as I would with the distraction.

[attainablerecovery]

Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning.

“The Body Keeps The Score” by Bessel van der Kolk

[argumate]

who needs a stable sense of personal identity if you have a sufficiently detailed TODO list

[certifiedcopy]

Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar Wai

[anenlighteningellipsis]

“Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.”

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

[best-of-memes]

[rememberingtoforgetaboutit-deac]

that was the best thing I have read in about 10 years.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

due to personal reasons I’ll be in my bedroom making no noise and pretending that I don’t exist

[soracities]

again, mood.

[precious-silly-thing-deactivate]

me, when i can’t organize or plan for shit: nonlinear narrative sequence enhances the dreamlike atmosphere of this tragicomedy

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Gentleness is so important. Gentleness of the heart. Gentleness of the spirit. Gentleness in one’s aura. Gentleness in one’s own motivations and actions. Gentleness that is both embodied and practiced.

[geritsel]

Salvador Dalí - some paintings

[yourdragontamer]

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