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Reblogged from motherjones with 744 notes
thank god for late night cigarettes
being in love is like
at any given time i just want to yell out FUCK YEAH IM IN LOVE
even though i know no one cares but damn do i want to celebrate
i hate when people post i hate my insecurities and simply leave it at that.
we’re supposed to be adaptive to change we’re supposed to do things differently when we hit a wall. stop just hating makes you insecure, embrace it! know your weaknesses and know why you’re stronger than them!
i hate how scared i am of being alone, of how weak i feel both literally and figuratively. i hate when i feel like i don’t have the power to fulfill my dreams to live the life i want to live, when i feel physically small. but life is a process of learning and improvement and when you encounter a problem you don’t keep trying to run down the wall you make changes and some might lead you somewhere good and others somewhere bad but the important thing is that you keep trying.
i’m never going to give up on myself, i can make this lanky skinny body of mine work and do great things! amazing things!
hell i saw a picture that was taken of me just about a month ago and ive been working out for most of that month and looking at me now i see the changes.
the best way to survive is to adapt and to persevere and i tell you the one reason why i can consider myself a success, a winner, a champion, it is because when i get knocked down i get back up
Everyone has a shtick that they talk endlessly about. I have several but above all mine is racism. Everything always turns into race with me, how people just hate each other because they are different, because they ignore hundreds of years of scholarship and thinking and reasoning maybe even thousands of years just to hate the hell out of each other for no apparent reason besides differing skin. I hate all forms of racism, none of it is ever justified, especially today because at least back then none of those idiots realized it was wrong to be prejudiced for absolutely no goddamn reason. When I meet racists in this day and age I honestly just have to think that they are the biggest wastes of space and energy that the universe could have used for something more productive, actually just about anything would be more productive than these people.
There used to be a precedent for racism, it was called stupidity. I wish that by today we would have learned to be above our basic instincts and use only the skill that has kept the human race alive from its inception, adaptability. What I mean to say is, everyone’s forefathers, everywhere, were dumber than rocks and when they saw different colored people they usually felt hostile towards the unknown thing and it took time for them to learn that they were actually the same creature. Today you have absolutely no excuse to think like that, I don’t even know how many years were used to come to this point where we can finally understand each other, our cultures and traditions and instead of sharing our strengths and helping each other through our weaknesses, we continue to war against each other because we have different skin. Tell you what next time I see a guy who wears a different colored shirt than that I am wearing I will go beat the living hell out of him.
Traditionally everyone just killed everyone else nearby them, and as the world became globalized we felt it pertinent to unite on the basis of skin color. The saddest part about this is that instead of uniting to help the poor and feed the hungry and all the other tragedies that we hear about and promptly ignore, we decide that time is best spent devoting all our energy to hate. Let me tell you that hate takes energy and persistence, you use so much of yourself hating. Hating is a chore, its work you have to continue searching for a reason to hate, so you make things up, and pretty soon you go into things arbitrary and false. “I hate asians because they have slanty eyes! I hate white people because all of them are out to get me! I hate mexicans because they take jobs I could have!”
There is no hopeful end note to this like there usually is, like I said hate takes energy, and all this energy I’ve spent hating racism, outlining its pitfalls and stupidities especially in what is supposed to a brilliant new era, its tired me out. Maybe one day we will learn to accept the differences between ourselves and anyone else regardless of race or beliefs. Maybe we will stop fighting fire with fire, maybe we will stop responding to racism with indignation and further hatred, maybe hopefully we will not let the pettiness invade our spirits and we can respond with dignity. But until then if you aren’t wearing the same colors as I am watch out because I’m pissed.
"We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
Dr. Seuss
sappy simple lines for the same type of love
i love you more each day
even when you’re far away
i love you more than words can express
i love the way you look in that dress
i love your smile; it lights up the room
and you shine more brilliantly than the moon
you know all there is to know about me
more than i know about myself
you listen to my thoughts
you take care of me when i’m ailing
you reassure me when i’m failing
and you do it because you love me and that is the greatest part of all
i love you unabashedly and unequivocally because i know you love me back
