Studio Ghibli: ‘Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind’ (1984) Dir. Hayao Miyazaki

jun/unknown final boss, tekken tag tournament 2 (2011)

i think it's time accept that relationships do me more harm than good and just focus on friendships and communities

"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

Summer ~ 1895 ~ Walter Crane (British artist, 1845-1915)

The "kids are on their damn phones all the time" conversation has changed in an extremely significant way and I'm not sure people realize it. When kids had flip phones, and even in the early days of smartphones, kids were using their phones to text each other. It was part of an active social life. Now they're using their phones more and more to consume content from influencers or other accounts. It's more passive and it's increasingly what people are doing instead of socializing with each other. This applies to adults too, I just keep thinking about high school students.

things we are leaving in our 20s:

-people-pleasing

-centering men

-self-deprecating humor

-perfectionism

Mahmoud Darwish - “Memory for Forgetfulness” 

you know better than anyone that everything is temporary. forever is just a hopeful plea, the base of our religion. but what to do with that knowledge? and how heavy it lays on my heart which still carries that child-like hope when it runs and skips in moments like these.

you have to let yourself feel the good things, even if they often feel too light, to implausible to be true.

even if you know they might be gone sooner than you think.

that's the hardest part, you still have to let yourself feel the good things.