Breaking Beautiful

gulping: Matilda

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:55:45 -0400

gulping:

Matilda

aeromatic: Hahaha i go through this like 50 times a day oops

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:54:04 -0400

aeromatic:

Hahaha i go through this like 50 times a day oops

"It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:49:44 -0400

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It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend most of your time with Netflix or that you haven’t left the house today and you might not even go outside tomorrow. Ha ha, funny. But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you’re not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are.

A part of you knew this was going to happen. Growing up, you just had this feeling that you wouldn’t transition well to adult life, that you’d fall right through the cracks. And look at you now. La di da, it’s happening.

Your mother, your father, your grandparents: they all look at you like you’re some prized jewel and they tell you over and over again just how lucky you are to be young and have your whole life ahead of you. “Getting old ain’t for sissies,” your father tells you wearily.

You wish they’d stop saying these things to you because all it does is fill you with guilt and panic. All it does is remind you of how much you’re not taking advantage of your youth.

You want to kiss all kinds of different people, you want to wake up in a stranger’s bed maybe once or twice just to see if it feels good to feel nothing, you want to have a group of friends that feels like a tribe, a bonafide family. You want to go from one place to the next constantly and have your weekends feel like one long epic day. You want to dance to stupid music in your stupid room and have a nice job that doesn’t get in the way of living your life too much. You want to be less scared, less anxious, and more willing. Because if you’re closed off now, you can only imagine what you’ll be like later.

Every day you vow to change some aspect of your life and every day you fail. At this point, you’re starting to question your own power as a human being. As of right now, your fears have you beat. They’re the ones that are holding your twenties hostage.

Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen. You’ve already spent enough time feeling like you’re stuck, like you’re watching your life fall through you like a fast dissolve and you’re unable to hold on to anything.

I don’t know if you ever get better. I don’t know if a person can just wake up one day and decide to be an active participant in their life. I’d like to think so. I’d like to think that people get better each and every day but that’s not really true. People get worse and it’s their stories that end up getting forgotten because we can’t stand an unhappy ending. The sick have to get better. Our normalcy depends upon it.

You have to value yourself. You have to want great things for your life. This sort of shit doesn’t happen overnight but it can and will happen if you want it.

Do you want it bad enough? Does the fear of being filled with regret in your thirties trump your fear of living today?

We shall see.

”

- You’re Not Making The Most Of Your 20s by Ryan O’Connell (via profanityoptional)

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Sat, 25 May 2013 16:33:55 -0400

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Sat, 25 May 2013 16:10:56 -0400

"How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:11:33 -0400

“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via larmoyante)

so-relatable-blog: Most relatable posts here!

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:26:32 -0400

so-relatable-blog:

Most relatable posts here!

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:06:04 -0400

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

- Oscar Wilde (via thefagartist)

samsketch: I’m very excited to finally be able to share one of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:46:15 -0400

samsketch:

I’m very excited to finally be able to share one of the illustrations I’ve been working on. A few months ago I was contacted by Chris Baty (of NaNoWriMo fame) to illustrate a poster centered around encouraging people to write! I had a lot of fun with this painting; it’s always nice when your freelance work allows you to do something completely different from your day job, and this poster did just that for me. If you’re interested in buying this poster (or perhaps another poster in Chris’ shop), you can find a large version here and a small version here.

Also, this week has been quite the adventure for me, as I’ve been offered a position as a visual development artist at Sony Pictures Animation on “Cloudy 2”! It’s only been one week, and already I’ve learned so much from being surrounded by the incredible talent there!

hippist: kalories: one of the greatest things ive seen in a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:17:28 -0400

hippist:

kalories:

one of the greatest things ive seen in a long time

reminds me of “ I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”

panier: misschloejane: attackoftheswag: Marine pretending to...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:59:19 -0400

panier:

misschloejane:

attackoftheswag:

Marine pretending to cheat off a 4th graders math exam. - Phillippines

This is ~~kind of~~ adorable.

this deserves every single note and then more.

wtfshiroko: Radioactive (Music Box Version) - Imagine...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:57:43 -0400

wtfshiroko:

Radioactive (Music Box Version) - Imagine Dragons

by JoshuaSaundersMusic

"Take me in small doses; I’ll take you all at once."

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:47:28 -0400

““Take me in small doses; I’ll take you all at once.””

- (via mouth-forwar)

starveit: bitchniebear: Every time :) this doesn’t happen in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:56 -0400

starveit:

bitchniebear:

Every time :)

this doesn’t happen in england/london

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Tue, 21 May 2013 22:42:38 -0400

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:39:11 -0400

““I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.””

- Franz Kafka (via greatauthorquotes)

"You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:21:02 -0400

““You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.””

- Deepak Chopra (via zodiaccity)

eatsomebrains: you know in like 20 or 30 years or so theres gonna be a section in history books...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:17:47 -0400

eatsomebrains:

you know in like 20 or 30 years or so theres gonna be a section in history books dedicated to this time period where gays were fighting for their right to marry and suffering from discrimination

and the kids learning about it in class are going to be disgusted by the mere fact that gays had to even try to fight for what was rightfully theirs

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Tue, 21 May 2013 20:38:25 -0400

"We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:30:13 -0400

“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

- Carson McCullers (via desalpes)