March 2012
5 posts
1 tag
February 2012
18 posts
1 tag
1 tag
3 tags
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you,...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via annaginn)
2 tags
3 tags
about that egotistical asshole who you've always...
I see the ego and arrogance as weakness. It just shows that a person is afraid to face their vulnerability. An egotistical person refuses to accept that they are just another one of the millions of human beings on this planet.
We all fear death. The fact that our life is so fleeting drives us to want to find something that tells us our life MEANT something, that we impacted the world in some way...
Dear Coke Talk: On struggling with mortality. →
dearcoketalk:
Dear Coquette,
I struggle to accept my own morality and have become obsessed with the work of Aubrey de Grey. I am even counting on his research succeeding within my lifetime, and I think this expectation is unhealthy. I know you just recently covered mortality, and while I’m not having…
2 tags
the death of Ashton Howe: Denial of solid ground →
deathofashtonhowe:
Gasped breath turned stale in the back of my throat, sour, a metallic regurgitation of past heartbreak tossing my innards into knots, certainty into denial of solid ground all over again. The sun through half-closed blinds intruded — as I, too, had so clearly intruded upon your unlit secret. Your…
3 tags
the plain and simple of accepting life how it is
gosh, you know, I’m really afraid of thinking wrong. Like, going through life with the wrong perspective only to realize years later that I got it wrong. What if there’s enlightenment somewhere buried in my thoughts and i just haven’t uncovered it yet? What if there’s some truth there that I don’t quite understand but that will make coping with life a whole lot...
coketalk:
GPOY on Super Bowl Sunday