synecdoche.

What I learned on my bike ride.

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:39:45 -0400

Your lifestyle has already been designed.

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:37:37 -0400

Your lifestyle has already been designed. :

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

"I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore."

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:22:17 -0400

“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via akachristiannaa)

"There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:56:26 -0400

“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (via kathabblanskcas)

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Mon, 13 May 2013 01:54:08 -0400

the-iridescence: by Grant Harder

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:48:11 -0400

the-iridescence:

by Grant Harder

My life has become dried paint.

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:47:05 -0400

I like the picture well enough, but it could use a fresh layer.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 01:42:57 -0400

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Mon, 13 May 2013 01:33:20 -0400

"While you’re young, you should travel. You should take the time to see the world and taste the..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:33:04 -0400

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While you’re young, you should travel. You should take the time to see the world and taste the fullness of life. Spend an afternoon sitting in front of the Michelangelo. Walk the streets of Paris. Climb Kilimanjaro. Hike the Appalachian trail. See the Great Wall of China. Get your heart broken by the “killing fields” of Cambodia. Swim through the Great Barrier Reef. These are the moments that define the rest of your life; they’re the experiences that stick with you forever.

Travelling will change you like little else can. It will put you in places that will force you to care for issues that are bigger than you. You will begin to understand that the world is both very large and very small. You will have a new found respect for pain and suffering, having seen that two-thirds of humanity struggle to simply get a meal each day.

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- (via green-peanuts)

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Mon, 13 May 2013 01:00:51 -0400

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Sun, 12 May 2013 13:15:41 -0400

I'll leave the wise words to wise men and write messy things.

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:12:51 -0400

My life is often filled with chaotic moments when things aren’t quite right. Often times I am reaching past what is easy to have and focusing on what’s almost out of reach. The strain can be maddening, disheartening even.

The most important thing, I remind myself, is to not become bitter at the nice things for being so hard to obtain.

My life is like that now. So many intangibles in my head are caught in the web of loosely defined optimism and skepticism.

I am wagering nearly everything on an idea. That Cuba will teach me something that I need to know, show me something that I need to see, and offer what is needed for me to move forward.

The truth is Cuba, like my life, will be exactly what I make it. No more, no less.

I need to exist outside of the boundary of my own life. I need something external, something new. I am overly adjusted to the small space I occupy and the little microcosm I have become encased in.

I need to see what is outside of the lines and if it changes anything about the life I will come back to.

I remind myself that I built this momentum for a reason, I worked very hard and chose thousands of individual paths that lead me to this trajectory. I put myself here for a reason and now that all the hard work is done I can let inertia take me wherever it will.

dwindlings: Dramamine by Modest Mouse We kiss on the mouth but...

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:15:45 -0400

dwindlings:

Dramamine by Modest Mouse

We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves.

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:38:01 -0400

"You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:42:03 -0400

“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.”

- Tony Gaskins (via llbolek)

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