thought provoking
we do not leave sorrow behind as if it were luggage at the curb. we learn how to carry it without dropping everything else. some days the bag feels light and you forget it is on your shoulder. some days the strap bites into your skin and you cannot remember what it felt like to walk unburdened. both days are part of the same life.
the taboo we don’t talk about: death and grief
the taboo we don’t talk about: death and grief by Ayushi Thakkar
No, I think this will all end, as T.S Eliot said, with a whimper. People will simply lose interest and walk away. Because the internet now is boring . People spend all day scrolling because they are trying to find what isn’t there anymore. The authenticity, the genuinely human moments, the fun.
The End of the Extremely Online Era
Your life is more than just context: it is a record of desires and sensations, and if most are condemned to banality, surely a few must transcend it. Your sensory apparatus is uniquely yours and so is the consciousness attached to it, and your progress through the world cannot entirely be programmed or replicated.
Chapter 3, Better Living Through Criticism by A.O. Scott
Am I weird for it? Sure. But would little me think I was the coolest person ever? Absolutely.
— @_lakenzo_
A bad beginning doesn’t necessarily mean a bad ending.
— Murmer, DissociaDID System, from YouTube video “MEET A MERMAID ALTER: MURMER! | NON-HUMAN ALTERS & Dissociative Identity Disorder | DissociaDID” by DissociaDID
Clothes are transient expressions, like wearing music.
— Anonymous, from Youtube video “BIGGEST CARE PACK EVER?! Unboxing #2 | DissociaDID” by DissociaDID
there are so many dead versions of you fossilised in other people’s minds
we have to make peace with that
our ghosts are still running around causing a ruckus in other people’s stories
being alive is weird
Leila Madeline 🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒substack.com