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was playing "fetch" with the ocean today by tossing stones into it and watching them wash back up with the tide a few meters away, and it got me thinking about grief and the things we carry with us even after we lose them

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Shimmering I and Ghostly Hand, Cecilia Reeve, 2023.

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maybe a mildly hot take but i think everyone should be well acquainted w rejection. my goal is to put myself in as many situations as possible, even w the knowledge in mind that it might end w me rejected in some form. bc not caring about that leads to so much growth, & the more exposed you are to something, the more desensitized you are to it. i wanna reach a point where i don’t give even the slightest fuck about rejection at ALL bc i know that it had nothing to do w me personally. things just don’t work out sometimes

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“Late at night, as I was pulling out her earrings to kiss her, - the way I like, her back against the church wall- the Aegean thundered and the Saints all came out holding candles to light my way.”

— Odysseus Elytis, from “The Little Mariner” (IX)

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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

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For those who needed to hear it today

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you know what. I've avoided reading it for years because frankly I don't have the iron will needed to dive into a 1000+ chapter battle shonen, but turns out I've been lied to. it's not a powerscaler's steroid-pumped wet dream, it's a silly comedy. it's just jokes. it's just funny faces and jokes

so I've been reading one piece. and I get it

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my favorite emotion is when someone does something kinda foolish and all you can say is “i love you” in response

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obsessed w this ("Dostoevsky as lover", Henrik Karlsson)

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On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart by Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie

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solskin gennem vinløv (1891) by peter ilsted

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*booktok voice* Do you want to read a gay story about two guys who speedrun enemies to lovers, go against their designed nature by being together, who become unstoppable fighting side by side to much dismay of the gods who created them? Do you want to see one of them eaten alive by the grief for his lover when he dies from a godsent sickness? A book about someone fighting so hard for a chance at eternal life that he doesn't notice he is throwing away the precious time he has got, filling it with agony? Well, in the  2100 BCE poem of Gilgamesh-

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so I've been reading one piece. and I get it