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Poem: Time
I felt the passage of time
More strongly than ever
When I had peace and quiet
Enough to watch it
Drift through my fingers,
Enough for me to feel fine
About how fleeting it is
To be alive, how fleeting
It is to have time, to live
To let go of it, to live and
To be alive.
j.p
As frightened as you, of being alive
Variations on a Theme - Gabrial Urbina / Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector / Still Unbeaten Life - Gang of Youghts / Saturn - Sleeping at Last
on living just for the sake of being alive
x / here, there are blueberries - mary szybist / invitation - mary oliver / walt whitman / to the young who want to die - gwendolyn brooks / madness: a bipolar life - marya hornbacher / thanksgiving 2006 - ocean vuong / the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoyevsky / the bell jar - sylvia plath
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
Alan Bennett, The History Boys
the idea that humans are a garbage species is so obnoxious no one talks about the peaceful parts of history and prehistory because they aren’t as exciting as us killing each other but um homo sapiens have been doing awesome things all over for a long time….we survived the fucking ice age…we made it through the sinai desert….we shared the savana with big cats before we ever made a weapon, we wove baskets from literal plants and halved blades from flint to handles we made, carved harpoons from bone and fought megafauna for our loved ones, cooked food and took care of the elderly and buried our dead, painted pictures and shared stories, built homes from clay and mud and straw, made instruments so we could dance and sing…it is so easy to focus on the negative and i get it ok we are in the middle of a mass extinction event that specific humans are at fault for but listen: they don’t want you to remember it hasn’t always been like this…we were and are so much more than evil
soon: comfy sweaters, hot beverages in cups, leaves crunching under your feet, drops of rain against the window, reading your book in bed
“The body changes over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one’s capacity to endure it.”
— Janet Fitch, Paint It Black (via echymosis)
i don’t like how endings in real life come on so suddenly without making sense, without much warning. one minute you’re in the middle of something and the next it’s all a very long time ago and you’re a different person and none of it is ever coming back
sometimes u just have to stand over the sink and eat fruit that is perfectly ripe and know that each person is a world you cannot ever know the depth of and that each fruit and each life deserves a moment of quiet
it can be tempting to live your life like a prequel. to live as if you’re setting up your own story.and once you lose the weight, once you have the money, once you graduate school, once you’re in a real relationship, once, once, once. then finally, you’ll begin to live, and everything you do up until that point is some kind of half-life, some unimportant foreword you can skip. don’t do this. inhabit your life completely. sink fully into the wealth of your existence. the power to manifest is in the fearless owning of who you are, so that you can shape where you’re going.
My review on life:
I Think People overthink how life is supposed to Flow, we all seem to forget that Everybody is experiencing life for the first time like, there isnt instructions or Anything on what were supposed to do here think of life like minecraft your dropped into the world with no instructions but there is an outline or baseline of what were supposed to do, like in minecraft we could start etting Resources in order to help our in game character Survive, in life we go to school to get a proper Education so we could get a job and possibly in the Process discover ourself, and in both of these you are dropped into a world of Endless possibilities, in minecraft the goal is to get strong enough to kill the Ender dragon in life the goal that society has dictated is to have a good paying job, hopefully have a family someday and then hopefully live a long happy life with a peaceful death, but both of these have a world so full of possibilities and the universe and life in general is really unfair so those life plans People make, they shouldnt follow it so seriously life is unpredictable every single Day we live through our potential Death Day I'm sure that a lot of People world have wanted to accomplish their dreams before they leave this world but at the same time you shouldnt restrict yourself from the possibilities life has to offer, life is unpredictable so you should live as If everyday there's something new to look forward to, yes there re moments where life is boring but thats just it life isnt meant to be lived in the fast Lane life is a slow Process and we should enjoy it as time cant be turned back, one of the most Valuable things life has to offer is time so we should treasure it.
it's beautiful to be alive
when the air and sun in the green fields with wildflowers starts feeling like "oh i love being alive"
i love intense people. fast replies, lots of messages, tell me you day in detail, talk about your interests and hyperfixations, let's get passionate about the moon and the universe and life and let's dream that we're in a roof in paris drinking and staring at the sky like we're gonna live forever and read poetry aloud.
the past isn’t behind you it coils inside your body that’s why some years you feel closer and more nostalgic for certain ages than others just fyi
on icarus.
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde//Sigmund Freud- Interpretation of Dreams//@meanwhilepoetry//Herbert James Draper- Lament for Icarus//Joseph Campbell//Hozier- Sunlight//Rainer Maria Rilke- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge//Mary Oliver- The Sun//Vincent Van Gogh- The Sower//Matthew Ward- The Collected Stories//Florence and The Machine- Falling//Billy Collins- The Art of Drowning//Renè Milot- The Fall of Icarus//Hozier- I,Carrion (Icarrian)//Virginia Woolf- The Waves//J. Bengt- Icarus Flew//??)