Musing Aloud

This is awesome!

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:37:12 -0400

This is awesome!

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Wed, 22 May 2013 22:28:00 -0400

"Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:19:42 -0400

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”

- Cheryl Strayed (via moaka)

cleophatrajones: thirstrani: anotherhot: Marlon Teixeira YO...

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:00:23 -0400

cleophatrajones:

thirstrani:

anotherhot:

Marlon Teixeira

YO I’M DONE

I’m just gettin started…

;) ur welcome

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Wed, 22 May 2013 21:57:24 -0400

#leos #bowdown ; D

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:12:21 -0400

#leos #bowdown

; D

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Sun, 19 May 2013 16:17:39 -0400

Awesomeness. 18-15n-77-30w: http://18-15n-77-30w.tumblr.com/

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:04:43 -0400

Awesomeness.

18-15n-77-30w:

http://18-15n-77-30w.tumblr.com/

and a buncha otha more shit: This little white girl came up to the welcome desk and said to me...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:22:08 -0400

and a buncha otha more shit: This little white girl came up to the welcome desk and said to me...:

thebootydontlie:

This little white girl came up to the welcome desk and said to me shyly,

“Excuse me…
…you’re pretty,”

and just walked away. It was so random and genuine and nice—especially since I don’t/didn’t particularly feel pretty.

Then a black woman came in a few minutes after, and I told her she reminded…

LMAO…shouldn’t be true...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:09:54 -0400

LMAO…shouldn’t be true but….

18-15n-77-30w:

http://18-15n-77-30w.tumblr.com/

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Sun, 19 May 2013 15:04:54 -0400

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:35 -0400

“Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.”

- truth
N’tima (via cosmicspread)

interesting

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:01:22 -0400

interesting

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Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:32 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:59:18 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:58:11 -0400

Things I want to tell people, that I wish people had told me:

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:54:20 -0400

Things I want to tell people, that I wish people had told me::

wifwolf:

You don’t have to achieve great things by the time you’re 25

You have intrinsic value above and beyond your perceived utility to other people and society at large.

You don’t have to have sex, or have sex in any way that you find uncomfortable or unpleasant, to keep anyone’s love or good opinion of you. They didn’t love you or think very well of you to start with if they demand it.

You don’t have to stay with someone who isn’t meeting your emotional or sexual needs because they need you, or you’ve been with them for awhile, or you need to be in a relationship. You need you. Your time is your own and it is finite.

It’s ok to work at a job you enjoy that doesn’t make you miserable even if it’s not a career and it won’t “lead to anything.”

Your life is not a narrative. It is not leading to anything, there is no overarching thesis, it does not have themes beyond the usual shared cultural experiences of your time and place. This is ok. It does not mean that your life is without purpose or meaning.

It’s ok not to like or get along with the vast majority of people you encounter, so long as you afford them the same respect, courtesy and dignity that they afford you.

Expensive is not always better.

Failure is temporary if you’re still alive.

People are both much better and much worse than you’d suspect, but usually not all at once.

Stop thinking of your future self as a different person and it will be easier to prevent money and health problems.

Let people help you, lean on them when you need to, and be available to help, but don’t swing too far in either direction. Try to carry your half of the life basket as evenly as you can.

Set boundaries, and do not be afraid to kick people out of your life who disregard them. You will not end up alone and unloved. People who love you will be ok with your boundaries.

Your power does not come from money or beauty, but from seeing life steadily and wholly, from a curious and thoughtful mind, and from your ability to say no when you want to, and yes when you want to, and I don’t know when you don’t know.

There will be bad times, maybe lots of bad times, but not only bad times.

Love will not heal the wounds in your soul, but love can give you the impetus to begin the work of healing yourself.

Life might be a long series of starting over, and that’s alright.

You’re really cool, you’re really beautiful, you’re really special. Really. Not to everyone, but to a lot of someones sometimes.

This is lovely.

: Sunday: Writer Rejected

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:39:40 -0400

: Sunday: Writer Rejected :

unmannedpress:

Is writing fractured by periods of silence or can silence be a tool of strength in writing?

What defined him [Juan Rulfo], according to those that new him, were his long silences, existential as well as counterverbal. Silence lies at the heart of his fiction, where much is said in few…

peachwongwish: #quoteoftheday #lifequote (at Cubic Associates...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:35:14 -0400

peachwongwish:

#quoteoftheday #lifequote (at Cubic Associates Group (Thailand) Co., Ltd.)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:32:07 -0400