tips for those seeking happiness:

drowninyourkeroseneeyes:

1. Accept your sadness. Let it wash over you, let it consume you and invade you so that you can hardly breathe. And then push it away. Force it out. You are not your sadness. Your sadness is nothing more than the monster under your bed from your childhood nightmares. It is not you. It is not you. It is not you.

2. Replace the sadness with love. Love of yourself, love of your friends and family, love of the sky on a clear summer’s night. You are not your sadness. You are your love. It is that and only that which you need to hold onto.

3. Let go. Let go of your past. Let go of the hurts and losses and tears. Strip it bare so all that is left is a feeling of newness. No, do not forget these feelings. But let them go so that there is room for the happiness. Vacate your mind of the dark, let it float off into the atmosphere, so that the light can take up permanent residence.

4. Let yourself feel. Embrace the world. Step outside, take a deep breath and appreciate the majesty and beauty of this universe. We have fucked up this world, but if you look past the death and the war and the cruelty, you can see how beautiful the world really is. Life is far too short to only see the evil. You are not a hero for being able to point out the evil. Everyone can do that. You are a hero for seeing the good and embracing that.

5. Remember that you are only human and that you are not capable of everything nor should you be expected to. Do not concern yourself with the people who scorn you because you are not a superhuman who can do everything perfectly all at once.They are not worth your thoughts. The people who truly love you will not love you any less for what you are not capable of.

And last but not least, live. Go out into the world and do what you need to do. There is no better and faster way to happiness then living your life the way you want. So just fucking live.

important

apiphile:

Have you ever thought “Man, I feel impossibly shitty and I don’t know why”?

Run through this checklist before you do anything else.

  1. What have I eaten in the last 24 hours? Is it enough? If not, go and eat some food, you butt.
  2. Am I hydrated? If not, put some fluids in your body, fool.
  3. Have I slept an acceptable amount in the last 24 hours and preceeding few days? If not, do your utmost to have a nap. You need a reset, bro.
  4. Have I been outside/partaken in whatever form of exercise I am capable of? You’re stagnating, homie.
  5. Have I communicated with anyone? At all? About anything? In the last 24 hours? Sup, you’re not actually a lone wolf, and even if you’re just shouting BUTTLUMPS at someone over the intertubes, it’s better than shouting it at yourself inside your own head.

So basically: eat, drink, sleep, walk, and talk. If you still feel like emotional ass after that, start looking for more involved explanations.

pythons: Granville Street, Vancouver, 1973  wow. remind me again why i’m lucky enough to live here.

pythons:

Granville Street, Vancouver, 1973 

wow. remind me again why i’m lucky enough to live here.

modernations: Charles Jencks is the American landscape architect and designer behind this incredible flight of stairs. Called The Universe Cascade, it has 25 landings that mark the important shifts in cosmic history. Starting at the top, in the present day, and descending down, visitors are moving through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution. The steps finally disappear into the dark water below, which represents the mystery of the origin of the universe.

modernations:

Charles Jencks is the American landscape architect and designer behind this incredible flight of stairs. Called The Universe Cascade, it has 25 landings that mark the important shifts in cosmic history. Starting at the top, in the present day, and descending down, visitors are moving through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution. The steps finally disappear into the dark water below, which represents the mystery of the origin of the universe.

arab3sk: locamaniaco: Tahrir Square, Cairo - Christians protecting Muslims at prayer during an Occupation. THIS is beautiful.

arab3sk:

locamaniaco:

Tahrir Square, Cairo - Christians protecting Muslims at prayer during an Occupation.

THIS is beautiful.

i want to say something really deep and poetic about the rookie meetup today, because anaheed complimented my bag covered in feminist buttons and hazel was hilarious and chill and i met a bunch of really really cool rookies who had awesome hair and awesome crowns and awesome outfits, and all that was super amazing and deserves deepness and poeticism, but i am bad at living up to standards and expectations so instead i will say OMG I MET MY IDOL AND SHE KNEW WHO I WAS AND WAS SO NICE AND HUGGED ME AND THANKED ME FOR SAYING SMART THINGS (EVEN THOUGH I MOSTLY JUST SAY CATS AND GLITTER) ALSO THERE WAS MAGIC AND CROWNS AND FASHIONABLE PEOPLE AND AHHHHHHHH CAPSLOCK & RUN-ON SENTENCES ARE SUPER NECESSARY RIGHT NOW BECAUSE ROOKIE IS AMAZING ok bye ps: bitchfaces  pps: forgive the cellphone picture, i left my actually nice camera battery in vancouver bcuz i’m a genius

i want to say something really deep and poetic about the rookie meetup today, because anaheed complimented my bag covered in feminist buttons and hazel was hilarious and chill and i met a bunch of really really cool rookies who had awesome hair and awesome crowns and awesome outfits, and all that was super amazing and deserves deepness and poeticism, but i am bad at living up to standards and expectations so instead i will say OMG I MET MY IDOL AND SHE KNEW WHO I WAS AND WAS SO NICE AND HUGGED ME AND THANKED ME FOR SAYING SMART THINGS (EVEN THOUGH I MOSTLY JUST SAY CATS AND GLITTER) ALSO THERE WAS MAGIC AND CROWNS AND FASHIONABLE PEOPLE AND AHHHHHHHH CAPSLOCK & RUN-ON SENTENCES ARE SUPER NECESSARY RIGHT NOW BECAUSE ROOKIE IS AMAZING

ok bye

ps: bitchfaces 

pps: forgive the cellphone picture, i left my actually nice camera battery in vancouver bcuz i’m a genius

Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.
Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina   (via albinwonderland)
The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and control us. The Conversation about women happens everywhere, publicly and privately. We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification. Our voices, our personhood, our potential, and our accomplishments are regularly minimized and muted.
Ashley Judd, from an open (and eloquently outraged) letter following some nasty media comments. (via wornjournal)
visualgraphic: Motion Capture pretty much how i see the world exactly.

visualgraphic:

Motion Capture

pretty much how i see the world exactly.

Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation. If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life.

It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS.

Depression is not a synonym for being sad or having a bad day/bad week.

It’s not a PHASE. It’s not a CHOICE. It’s not LAZINESS.

(via general-grievous)

I’ve posted this before, but it’s worth posting again.

(via squeedge)

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