“…While it’s true you’re haunted by your past, it’s truer that you’ve traveled spectacularly far away from it. You swam across a wide and wild sea and you made it all the way to the other side. That it feels different here on this shore than you thought it would does not negate the enormity of the distance you traversed and the strength it took you to do it.” —
Cheryl Strayed (“Sugar”) might not technically be a therapist, but she’s been doing some of the most wonderful therapy anywhere on the planet over the past couple of years through her Dear Sugar column over at The Rumpus. If you somehow haven’t read her columns yet, you should definitely go and do so right now. You might lose several hours of your day/life in the archives, but I promise you it will be time well spent.
(via psychotherapy)
Whoa. Monsters and Ghosts.
Hermione went alone and got attacked by a troll
Moaning Myrtle went alone too and was killed by a giant snake.
Katie Bell also went alone and was cursed by an opal necklace.
@hlee. Stuff like this all day…….
(via everythingharrypotter)
“So it seems time to pronounce a rule about American popular culture: the Golden Forty-Year Rule. The prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to have happened, in the decade between forty and fifty years past… And so, if we can hang on, it will be in the twenty-fifties that the manners and meanings of the Obama era will be truly revealed: only then will we know our own essence. A small, attentive child, in a stroller on some Brooklyn playground or Minneapolis street, is already recording the stray images and sounds of this era: Michelle’s upper arms, the baritone crooning sound of NPR, people sipping lattes (which a later decade will know as poison) at 10 A.M.—manners as strange and beautiful as smoking in restaurants and drinking Scotch at 3 P.M. seem to us. A series or a movie must already be simmering in her head, with its characters showing off their iPads and staring at their flat screens: absurdly antiquated and dated, they will seem, but so touching in their aspiration to the absolutely modern. Forty years from now, we’ll know, at last, how we looked and sounded and made love, and who we really were.” — What “Mad Men” Shows About American Pop Culture | The New Yorker (via kateoplis)
(via gracelee)
“But inside the refuge of the Jaguar, we were susceptibly in love with each other.” — A very homesick and tired 18-year-old GSarah Kim who mostly spent her Writing the Essay making up stories about her friends
“Don’t blame your poor decision-making skills on your Hogwarts placement!” — Self-proclaimed Hufflepuff; Sorting Hat says Slytherin
JC: I haven’t seen the third one yet.
JH: Is that the one where she has to snuggle with Jacob?
PA: SHSHSH!
GK: …are you going to see it…
PA: …yeah…
JW: Well theres nothing like seeing it at Cannes.
JM, AK, ML: …………………………
This is my beautiful friend Rebecca Kim. My favorite things to do with her include eating three-course desserts together in different parts of the world, running into her by accident in different parts of the world, and hanging out with her in secret for the sake of social politics, but only in New York. She prefers lychee ice cream over ginger ice cream because the flavor isn’t as extreme. But she will consider the corn ice cream if she must. She is coincidentally the best. And when she wants something, she will make things happen.
This is a response to a customer service email she recently sent to Schweppes Inc. (because she is the best) complaining about how they don’t supply Schweppes Agrum in the U.S. She then proceeded to explain how she and her friends had been huge fans of the soda while in Paris and that there was indeed a loyal market for the product in her country as well. She is currently planning on directly contacting Marketing.
Thank you for a glorious day. I cannot wait to spoil you with other people’s credit cards.
“Let’s wait a moment and think about this. I want to discover this part of myself.” — Vron, when asked “Who embodies your turn-offs?” This is only funny if you have been one of the unlucky handful of people (or Chrahn) who have had to sit through our absolutely outrageous but thorough analyses of the inferior sex. It’s funny because she is being completely serious. I’m beginning to understand why they prefer to shoot at zombies, or sit around and stare at their walls or God forbid, go to the gym, over spending time with us. But seriously, since when did all our pet names for each other turn into cyborg names?
1. Get up 15 minutes earlier.
3. Don’t rely on your memory…write things down.
4. REPAIR THINGS THAT WON’T WORK PROPERLY.
5. Make duplicate keys.
8. Avoid negative people.
9. Always make duplicates of important papers.
10. Ask for help with jobs that you dislike.
14. BE PREPARED FOR THE RAIN.
16. Avoid tight fitting clothes.
19. Visualize yourself winning.
20. Develop a sense of humor.
21. Stop thinking tomorrow will be a better today.
26. Stop a bad habit.
27. Do it today.
36. Become a better listener.
37. KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS AND LET OTHERS KNOW THEM TOO.
42. Take a different route to work.
44. Remember you always have options.
45. Quit trying to “fix” other people.
46. Get enough sleep.
47. Praise other people.
I mean it wasn’t all that inaccurate…