“Anyway he just wants to lie in the sand and breathe. / He has nothing in common with the world.”
— Wislawa Szymborska, from Nothing Twice: Selected Poems; “A Film from the Sixties,”
Tag: me
me: *hangs out with someone for 3 hours*
me: oh hey, i just remembered i have to tell you something
me internally: that was a lie. I’ve been wanting to tell you all day but I’ve been to nervous to just say it so I’ve been mentally rehearsing for hours
I’m not cruel, I’m logical; I declared war on society a long time ago.
(via unfolding-kriegspiel)
capricorns can seem nonchalant or unresponsive to criticism, disappointing or upsetting other people, and character denigration. but this lack of reaction is a likely sign of internal paralysis, frozen by the external reinforcement of their own negative and maligned self-beliefs
adhd, you’re super hard on yourself when you fail, but not when you’re in the process of failing
“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”
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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
(via violentwavesofemotion)
countervisuality 