June 2013
3 posts
May 2013
15 posts
“1. push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise.
2. push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable.
3. erase processed food from your diet. start with no lollies, chips, biscuits, then erase pasta, rice, cereal, then bread. use the rule that if a child couldn’t identify what was in it, you don’t eat it.
4. get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else.
5. stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything.
6. buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice.
7. buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small.
8. strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full.
9. organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle.
10. have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck.
11. push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog.
12. message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through.
14. think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything.
15. become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends.
16. lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.” —Sixteen Small Steps to Happiness (via pigmenting)
2. push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable.
3. erase processed food from your diet. start with no lollies, chips, biscuits, then erase pasta, rice, cereal, then bread. use the rule that if a child couldn’t identify what was in it, you don’t eat it.
4. get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else.
5. stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything.
6. buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice.
7. buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small.
8. strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full.
9. organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle.
10. have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck.
11. push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog.
12. message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through.
14. think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything.
15. become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends.
16. lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.” —Sixteen Small Steps to Happiness (via pigmenting)
uoa:
do you guys realize we can change our lives any time we want like you can just go ahead and delete your blog, stop eating meat, shave your head, start running, tell that person you hate why you hate them so much, confess your love to someone and kiss them unexpectedly like why don’t we do that
this is the most inspirational thing I’ve ever read
“We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and operate a bumblebee’s wing. We can’t jump or run very fast, and we can’t carry vast weights like an ant can. We can’t see in the dark and we can’t fly except crammed in a noisy tube like sardines, which doesn’t count. Humans compared to animals are almost totally deaf, and we can’t smell a fart in an elevator by their standards. We are finite and separate, and neurotic, while the consciousness of an animal is at peace and eternal. We strive and go crazy to become more important. Animals rest and sleep and enjoy the company of each other. We think we have evolved upwards from animals but we have lost almost all of their qualities and abilities. The idea that animals don’t have consciousness or that they don’t have a soul is rather crass. It shows a lack of consciousness. They talk, they have families, they feel things, they act individually or together to solve problems, they often care of their young as a tribal unit. They play, they travel, and medicate themselves when they get sick. They cry when others in the herd die, they know about us humans. Of course they have a soul, a very pristine one. We humans are only now attempting with the recent rise in consciousness to achieve the soul that animals have naturally.”
—Stuart Wilde (via commovente)
“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
—Andrea Gibson, Bone Burying (via 0ccultism)
In Memoriam
The Oh Hellos
In Memoriam - The Oh Hello’s
“Yeah, then I saw love disfigure me
Into something I am not recognizing” —Phosphorescent, “Song for Zula”
Into something I am not recognizing” —Phosphorescent, “Song for Zula”
the cinnamon peeler's wife: i think i’m really good at making myself an outsider looking in in a... →
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i think i’m really good at making myself an outsider looking in in a lot of situations. i’ve always been very independent but sometimes it gets lonely. i want what i can’t have and what i can’t have is the world to fill me with its colors and to take everything else away. i don’t consider myself a person as much as i consider myself an empty vessel that takes and takes and takes and tries to convey all of everything in smaller and smaller words. i can’t write poetry anymore because i feel like a landmine and don’t know where to stop without exploding myself into millions of little pieces. there is never enough time to take a breath and erase yourself clean, lose yourself in words and books and have the freedom to disappear. there is always so much movement, so much flux, so much world that i’m missing and i don’t have enough lives to live them from every angle that i want to live them.
“Will you tolerate
the strangeness inside of me,
the quirks of my soul?” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
the strangeness inside of me,
the quirks of my soul?” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
April 2013
6 posts
Rhonniedatech: Someone just read into my soul →
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“I have found that I don’t need a lot of consistent communication to feel close with someone.
I don’t really need to chat with anyone everyday or for several weeks for that matter, because I’m an empathetic person and have a good intuition of what others are thinking, feeling, processing, etc. It doesn’t have to be verbally communicated. If they’re not around me I still get this fulfillment from thinking about them. I think a lot about the people I care about.
If I do go a long time without talking to someone it’s easy for me to reconnect with them and feel close with them after a hiatus. It feels like nothing ever happened. Some people really thrive when it comes to discussing daily conversation, talking about the small happenings and little details, and need to always be connected to feel close but I don’t”
when you feel you have lost everything, you still have
- books
- unexpected kindness in strangers
- the rest of the world to travel
- languages to learn
- animals to take care of
- volunteer work to do
- the power of a good night’s rest
- the changing of seasons
- infinite things to learn
- billions of people to meet and possibly love
- billions of people who might love you back
Quote of the Day, from Mr. Rogers
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are real.”
—Tupac Shakur
“The masses of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
—Henry David Thoreau
March 2013
13 posts
“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”
—Timothy Leary (via francesvhale)
“Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.”
—Yasmin Mogahed (via quotethat)
“Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing possible. Be selfish with your time, and all the aspects of you. Tinker with shit, travel, explore, love a lot, love a little, and never touch the ground.”
—Kyoko Escamilla (via musesofagypsy)
“I’d begun to grow weary of my constant daydreaming because, as I retreated more often into fantasy, it had become a reminder of my growing discontent with real life.”
—Nick Miller (via infj-misc)
“Where you invest your love, you invest your life.”
—Mumford and Sons
“You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you. Too far, and they abandon you.”
—(via letnahc)
INFJ Confession 4046) Practicality versus passion. Family versus freedom.
Harvest Moon
Neil Young Greatest Hits
Harvest Moon by Neil Young
how to dream
what’s funny about the future is that if you think about it long enough, it stops being the future and instead, becomes this tragically beautiful dream. you see your life play out like an art film. at first, it’s all black and white, foreground and background. but then things slowly start to come into focus and all of a sudden, you see it.
you see yourself in this strange place, the kind of bustling metropolis that has history in its cobble-stone streets, in its quiet river canals, and in its ornate yet timeless architecture; culture in its unobtrusive language, in its coffee shops with balconies made for people watching, in its museums and theatres and dive bars; and spirit in its way of being beautiful without shouting it to the world, in its kindness to tourists, and in its ability to make you feel like its borders are wrapping its arms around you.
you see yourself with this invisible partner, the kind of boy who prefers the unconventional to the ordinary; who goes on roadtrips using a paper map instead of a gps; who gets your jim and pam references, who laughs at himself despite the social stigma of laughing at one’s self in public, who gives you crinkly-eyed smiles and forehead kisses, and who looks at you in a way that says “i know, i know”.
you see yourself doing nothing but being happy, the kind of emotion that fills your entire being with wavelengths of light that you didn’t know existed, that makes you want to lay down on the little triangle of grass in the parking lot just to feel the earth spinning, that makes you feel soggy inside because there is so much love inside of you, love for yourself, others, and the world, and this love is fluid as it moves through your soul.
and then you come back and you see where you are right now and you feel emotionally distant from your life. you realize that you’re nostalgic for a life you’ve never had; for a city you’ve never been to, for a person you’ve never met, for a feeling you’ve never felt.
but it’s okay because that’s what’s so funny about the future. it means that there is still time. there is still time for these things to happen. there is still time for you to go somewhere, to meet someone, to feel something that changes your life. there is still time. so please don’t let regret stop you from doing something that you are still able to do. you’ve got a whole lifetime ahead of you, kid. there is still time.
February 2013
29 posts
a writer and nothing else:: XXVII. You will meet him in the cafeteria of the university you attend... →
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XXVII. You will meet him in the cafeteria of the university you attend while staring out of the window at winter’s last valiant attempt to bury this city under a blanket of frost. He will be drinking green tea, which you suppose reveals more about him than anything else will, but he will look at you like he wants you to understand anyway and you will grant him a slight turn of your lips without hesitation because you swear you can see the origins of the universe in his timid smile. He will pluck galaxies from beneath his lashes and choke on the sweetness of your tea, not realizing that you add one milk, two sugars to the scalding liquid to drown sadness lingering on the edge of your tongue. He will play bass and listen to your favourite band because you mentioned them once and ask you why Machiavelli was the one to build the foundations of modernity when we’ve all been searching for answers to the cosmic questions since the dawn of time. He will be fascinated by particle physics and the structure of black holes, worm holes, Alice in Wonderland holes in the ground and the overwhelming improbabilities involved in accidental occurrences like sitting across from you in the cafeteria of the university you both attend in a country where you were born into the world on a planet that supports life and orbits a mediocre sun in a small speck on the edge of a spiral galaxy in a universe that expanded so suddenly without any conceivable reason for it exist at all. And when he quirks his cupid’s bow lips, you will think that his eyes are not green enough, his smile not crooked enough, and you will feel uncomfortable trying to explain how distance sometimes feels like cancer hidden in your bones, the kind of plague your twelve-year-old cousin used to fight. He will have eyes the colour of a galaxy you don’t know the name of, unknowable and light-years beyond your existence strapped to this earth and you will find an inscription inside a worn copy of Kafka’s The Trial that says, “Susie, we clasp to memories like echoes if our thoughts and experiences be only captured in sound.” And you’ll wonder if Susie ever met someone who reminded her of someone else in all the wrong ways, if she walked away from a boy who held galaxies between his lashes without a backwards glance because this planet is safe and constant with its immovable geography and towering forests of evergreens. You will wonder if the universe is all at once too small and too infinite in its composition and tearing down the concrete skyscrapers of your backbone, planting dense forests inside your lungs, watching this planet grow into something worth loving - maybe that’s the reason you can’t leave Earth behind like that town you grew up in. Maybe that’s the reason you will stay.
“It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.”
—Jack Kerouac (via knowmyground)
“When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”
—Haruki Murakami (via sellyourcleverness)
i'll give you wut4: INFJ-Why you want one: They’ll... →
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wut4:
INFJ
Why you want one: They’ll sit-inside-and-read-Dostoevsky-with-you-on-a-rainy-day, they’re good curators of interests and they’ll find something interesting to do and plan the whole date out (to the second).
Spoiler Alert: Icy-cold exterior.
Where to find one: Any independent or used bookstore in a trendy neighborhood on a Friday night. Typically they’ll be there before heading to a small divey but not too divey bar to have a moderately pretentious microbrew with their one other friend.
Pickup technique: Ask them about Rilke, social justice, chai tea.http://www.philolzophy.com/2011/01/myers-briggs-dating-field-guide/
Umm so this is basically my life story.
“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.”
—Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via petrichour)
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via larmoyante)
“I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.”
—Charles Bukowski (via thecatpiano)
