Skye Mahdi
@skyemahdi
Skye Mahdi
I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
[…]
I was tame, I was gentle till the circus life made me mean
"Don't you worry, folks, we took out all her teeth"
[...]
'Cause you lured me
And you hurt me
And you taught me
You caged me and then you called me crazy
I am what I am 'cau
who’s afraid of little old me? ts
the internet is an infinity pool
Groundhog Day of grief
Viewers who spend four or more hours watching television each day hold significantly different opinions from those who spend far less time obtaining their information from the television. They believe, for example, that there is a far higher prevalence of crime, violence, alcoholism, drug abuse, and prostitution in society than is actually the case
... See moreDr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
It doesn’t matter how much money I make or how well I do, he’ll always just see me as his too-loud kid that got in trouble with teachers for talking too much and could never quite figure out how to hand in his homework on time.
B.K. Borison • Business Casual (Lovelight Book 4)
Similarly, because children cannot easily leave an offending situation, they are prey to powerful, limitless longings to fix the broken person they so completely depend on. It becomes, in the infantile imagination, the child’s responsibility to mend the anger, addiction or sadness of the grown-up they adore. It may be the work of decades to develop
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
am I allowed to cry?
guilty as sin? ts