"Over and over and over again, I say that were just friends. Forget the implications, infatuations end. If love’s so easy, why is it hard; I can’t imagine ever being apart. I’ll come back to you, it’d be brand new. But i promise, we’re just friends. Over and over and over again, I try to make amends for everything i’ve done wrong. My whole world just spins, make some coffee, hold me up, try to talk me out of giving up. I’ll come back to you, it’ll be brand new… but I promise, we’re just friends."
Wilco
Always loved that episode of Misfits..
“She’s got you thinking this is how you’re supposed to be. It’s not. We’re young. We’re supposed to drink too much. We’re supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each other’s brains out. We were designed to party. We owe it to ourselves to party hard. We owe it to each other. This is it. This is our time. So a few of us will overdose, or go mental. Charles Darwin said you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. That’s what it’s about - breaking eggs. If you could see yourselves… We had it all. We have fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We were so beautiful… We’re screw-ups. I plan on staying a screw-up until my late twenties, or maybe even my early thirties. And I will shag my own mum before I let her…. or anyone else take that away from me!” Oh Nathan..You’re amazing!
Ten Rules for Being Human
1.You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2.You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”
3.There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”
4.Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5.Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6.“There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”
7.Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8.What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9.Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10.You will forget all this.
by Cherie Carter-Scott
"At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart"
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
"Life is complicated. It starts before we’re ready, it continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do."
Adrian Tan
Look at you. You’re young. And you’re scared. Why are you so scared? Stop being paralyzed. Stop swallowing your words. Stop caring what other people think. Wear what you want. Say what you want. Listen to the music you want to listen to. Play it loud as fuck and dance to it. Go out for a drive at midnight and forget that you have school the next day. Stop waiting for Friday. Live now. Do it now. Take risks. Tell secrets. This life is yours. When are you going to realize that you can do whatever you want?
via goodnightgoodmorning;
At some point, you’ve got to wake up and realise that you aren’t as bad as you make yourself out to be. Sure, you’re not perfect. Nobody is. Chances are, the people you talk to have worse problems, but they’re just better at keeping a smile on. They’re just willing to accept it. Up until you do that, you won’t gain anyone’s respect.
Does it count as giving up if you don’t care anymore?
Appreciate Life.
