July 2012
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
—Ray Bradbury (via nagging)
June 2012
“History is not about dates and quotes and obscure provisos; history is about life, about change, about consequences, cause and effect, it’s about the mystery of human nature, the mystery of time. And it isn’t just about politics and the military and social issues, which is almost always the way it’s told. It’s about music and poetry and drama and science and medicine and money and love.”
— - David McCullough (via fargles)
“I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”
—Sylvia Plath (via baaambi-eyes)
“…and they simulate firing their penises like machine guns when dressed as soldiers…”
—reading about Magic Mike on IMDB
jellyfish are 97% water and 3% asshole
i’d argue they are about 1000000% asshole but this will suffice.
The privacy of a depressed person is not a dignity, it is a prison.
Depression is a disease of loneliness I have suffered for ten years, the past three of those medicated. It’s difficult to explain. Especially when pressed with questions why, when outside life appears so “normal” to everyone around me. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And like cancer, is it essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only my name on the door.
Some days I feel sad without knowing why. Somewhere along an incredible night out, the darkness overwhelms me and I find myself lost… in my own head. It feels like I’ve lost something very precious, but forgot what it was, like I miss someone I’ve never even met. There’s something missing and I can’t stop my mind from running a hundred miles a minute. I’m so tired but I can’t sleep, I can’t stop what I feel inside, and then begin the questions from those around me,“Jess, you’ve gone all quiet, what’s wrong?” And the questions begin to form in my own head amongst all the chaos, circling round and round, I think to myself “What the fuck is wrong with you, can’t you control your own thoughts?” I’m zoning out more and more as the questions and concerned faces appear before me every time I open my eyes. I’m trying to get rid of this, snap myself back into reality, but I’m so lost now, I don’t know what reality is.
It’s heartbreaking to give words to your pain only to find that pain unaffected by articulation. Maybe that’s why I write so much. I’m so well grounded, I protect myself from anyone wanting me to let them in; and the sad irony is that I’m not the one who ends up unaffected. It’s a betrayal – the betrayal inherent in arts and philosopher’s clear description of what they cannot improve. This disease state in my unconscious thoughts; I begin playing games with myself until I’m stuck in stale mate. I can’t move, I can’t think, I can’t rid this from me.
Psychoanalysis can look to early experiences and trauma; social theory can pin things on an emotional style, or on my unknown fears. Behaviorists can blame the way I process my experiences, or the stories I tell himself. Neurobiologists can comment on the rate at which serotonin is taken up in my brain. All you can say for sure is that the clues I give of being depressed look smaller to you than the depression they mark turn out to be.
What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.
-Charles Bukowski
