I feel that this has given me the most incredible and wonderful thing that I have ever been given, and also, the worst. It's a mixed bag. I have been taken to the to the depths of extreme terror by this. I've had my whole soul undermined by it, on the one hand. On the other hand in one sense, my experience has been about finding joy.
What‘s happening now all falls under the Neoliberalism play book doused with fascism. We‘ve been heading in this direction for decades. The Cheeto just put it into overdrive. #Thewholethingithinkitssick
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison
Roxy loves to see the kids at play. I love to see.
“I‘m not interested in longing to live in a world in which I already live”
Someone please hit the reset button.
Agnes Obel
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Today's #bookhaul
Yet time, the sculptor of all earthly forms,
Marks its presence with an inevitable sway.
As blossoms wither, the cycle transforms,
In graceful surrender, they slowly decay
G.L
Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.
Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
My intent is to breathe in the next world
Don't be sad for me
How sad are we?
And how sad have we been?
We'll let you know
Oh, but only if you're really interested
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
May we meet at the clearing at the end of the path
It‘s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
People assume you aren‘t sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the ways you‘re hurting.
My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not being sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more like me?
Have you tried shutting up?
Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying,
and yes, I am still sick.
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.
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Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost
Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life and death from you.
Oh wait, it seems that lonely I will be
I beg, I plead, but this is all that I have gotten
@britt_brooke how many of these books are there?
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
Which should I read first?
Show me how it ends, it's alright
Show me how defenseless you really are
Satisfied and empty inside
Well that's alright
Let's give this another try
I want a god who stays dead not plays dead
I, even I, can play dead
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