we all fall apart
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Man is in truth a miracle. The human mind is a creature of celestial origin, shut up and confined in a wall of flesh. We feel a kind of proud impatience of the degradation to which we are condemned. We beat ourselves to pieces against the wires of our cage, and long to escape, to shoot through the elements, and be as free to change at [page 100] any instant the place where we dwell, as to change the subject to which our thoughts are applied
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thereyn:

I want to write to you every moment of every day.

I want to tell you what my intestines, veins, and nerves scream whenever you are by my side and whenever you are not by my side; and what they yearn for — who they yearn for — whenever you are with me and whenever you are not with me. I want you to know how your smile triggers mine and how your frown triggers the tears in me. I want you to feel the same breeze and air that I inhale and exhale; for my every breath contains fragments of my heart dedicated to you and only you. I want you to hear the explosions inside of me and the bursting in my chest.

I want to tell you every thing. Every single thing. Every little thing.

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When lying becomes a habit

ephemeralhues:

I. The positive pregnancy test on your sink deems harmless not until what’s woven in your womb started to kick in the middle of your Algebra examination. Also, you could wear that reassuring smile for yet another day to mask your guilt for having your best friend’s lover as your daughter’s father. You tried to convince yourself that you will never become a liar; that you’re simply delaying the truth.

II. Nine years from now and an old man found you sitting alone and lonely, and offered to buy you a drink. He asked  what’s the story of your life, and you flashed your sixteen-year-old smile and told him that you’re just another girl in the bar. You felt his tongue in your nape the way your haunted past slit your throat every night. You tried to convince yourself that you were not lying; that you’re simply denying the opportunity to tell the truth.

III. It was your mother’s 9th death anniversary and you visited her grave for the first time. You brought tulips for her, the flower she used to tuck behind your ears as her eyes shout out how much she loves you. You reminisced about the cold nights when she sang you to sleep, only to realize that you’re just recalling the illusion you used to tell to your friends, even though she won’t claim you as her own child in front of her new man. You tried to convince yourself that you’ve never became a liar in your whole life; that you’re simply fond of distorting the truth.

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Uncontrol Freaks.

lucymunanto:

Humans like to lose control. Don’t they? 

As much as we strive to be in control of everything in our lives, I believe we all secretly wish that we could just lose it. 

More often than not it goes haywire: explosions of emotions, terrible breakdowns followed by subsequent dark days of self loathing and depression. 

But sometimes, just sometimes, losing control is plain euphoria. 

The hardest problem is letting go and trusting the world will catch us when we stop trying to control every variable in our lives. We all wish that when we do lose control, we are pleasantly surprised instead of greeted with bitter disappointment. 

Well, there can never be any guarantees. But to miss out on this feeling of vulnerability, where you don’t know what the world can do with you next, well… to miss out on that is a real shame. 

Let go. 

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ollymurs:

i dont wanna go to college i wanna go to concerts 

(via fucking-insane-hopes)

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jesuschristvevo:

i dont date in high school because no one is rich yet so whats the point

(via fucking-insane-hopes)

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You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

(Source: bostonreview, via loveyourchaos)
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we-are-star-stuff: Who says North is up? Upside Down maps (also known as South-Up or Reversed maps) offer a completely different perspective of the world we live in. Technically speaking, even referring to the earth with words like “up” or “down” or comparing places with words “above” or “below” is flawed, considering that the earth is a spherical body (it’s actually slightly “fatter” at the equator) and flying through 3 dimensional space with no reference of up or down. However, the issue of “up” and “down” does become an issue when viewing the surface of the earth projected onto a flat piece of paper (a map). And the effect of the orientation of a map is more significant than you might realize. As all maps require orientation for reference, the issue of how to layout the map orientation is as old as maps themselves. As map orientation is completely arbitrary, it is not surprising that they differed throughout time periods and regions. The convention of North-up is usually attributed to the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy (90-168 AD). Justifications for his north-up approach vary. In the middle ages, East was often placed at top. This is the origin of the term “The Orient” to refer to East Asia. During the age of exploration, European cartographers again followed the north-up convention…perhaps because the North Star was their fixed reference point for navigation, or because they wanted (subconsciously or otherwise) to ensure Europe’s claim at the top of the world. In modern times, reversed maps are made as a learning device or to illustrate Northern Hemisphere bias. Different from simply turning a north-up map upside down, a reversed map has the text oriented to be read with south up. The famous “Blue Marble” photograph of the Earth taken from on board Apollo 17 was originally oriented with the south pole at the top, with the island of Madagascar visible just left of center, and the continent of Africa at its right. However, the image was turned upside-down to fit the traditional view. While the orientation of a map might seem harmless, it can have a significant effect on one’s perception of the world, and the relative importance of the different place in it. In speech, we often refer to places being “above” or “below” others. Think of how you would say you’re about to travel to the state or country to your north or south (to go “down” to Kentucky from Indiana, or “up” to Canada from the US). Without even mentioning geography, ask any grade school student whether Mexico is “above” or “below” the United States. We’re all familiar with the “land down under”. As we often correlate importance to relative height (think how a citizens of a country will fly their flag higher than all other flags), the north-up convention reinforces the idea that northern bodies are more important than their southern neighbors. Suddenly, traveling “down” to the South might have an inference much deeper than geographic location. After looking at the map more closely, you may realize that the South-Up orientation may change your perception of the relative status of different places. For example, South America suddenly looks to have more prominence, and Africa and the Middle East completely dwarf Europe. Likewise, tucking Northern Europe, Canada, and Russia away at the bottom of the map, subconsciously takes away their status. To summarize, unconditionally accepting the north-up map convention without at least appreciating the effect stands at odds with viewing all people and places within the world equally. x x
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lorddashy: Kate Upton Cat daddy  GOD BLESS
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sirseahorse:

stabsinthe:

if gatsby wrote a letter to nick it would be addressed to “old sport” because i firmly believe gatsby doesnt know nicks name

#it’s at that awkward phase where it’s too late to ask him

(via likeavision-shedances)

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