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I am always interested in creative process from all artists, I love hearing demos and seeing in-process drawings and productions. A finished project can feel so purposeful and effortless, but the road to get there could have been utter chaos and confusion and doubt, epiphanies and failures,“ Kish says. "I need to see that from others to know that no one is a god. Especially in our current generation everything seems so perfect, these perfectly curated lives and bodies and aesthetics plastered everywhere. It’s nice to see what’s behind that.

Kilo Kish, http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/introducing-kilo-kish-editor-at-large (via embracevim)

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Your full identity can’t be in that person. My identity was in her. Her identity was in me. When stuff would happen, I would lose my freakin’ mind, and she would lose her mind, and we would fight so hard because we were so invested in each other. Love is a choice. Love is not a feeling. People have made it seem in movies that it’s this fairy tale. That’s not what love is. You’re not gonna want to love your girl sometimes but you’re gonna choose to love her.

Justin Bieber via http://www.complex.com/music/justin-bieber-interview-2015-cover-story (via embracevim)

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“I think I need to learn discipline. I don’t think I ever learned it when I was young. I had one of those typical inner city stories. My mom was addicted to drugs so I had no bedtime. No wake-up time. No chores to do. Those sound like simple things but they aren’t. I’ve seen a lot of people in college who are able to work really hard at something even if they aren’t very interested in the subject, and I think that’s because they learned discipline.”

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Having someone to love unconditionally is the best gift in the world. 

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I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

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Happy Derp Year!

Vimawala-isms

Awww..."OWWW"

Shu-she, Oregon Oil, and Shop-op-ular 

“But, but but…I’m congested!”

KATNISS EVERDEEN!!!!! 

Sanjit Singh, meet Evil Spawn

4LL?! We MUST be sisters 

Exclusivo Bum to Bum

Soniya ~cue music~

Hee, Hee-ah, Hee Hee Hee-ah

Holding soft, soft sobs when he saw the tiny hand cut, heart confetti 

"Mom! You gotta get yourself into the fun mindset!" - Evil Spawn

Opening the curtains for a cold surprise

Budda -- waddle, waddle, waddle

“Hup hup? Wa Hoo? Yip Yip?” – Last Airbender

Gotta say hi all the time to keep you off my mind!

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time

Thu, tharo Bhai, and tharo Bap, ALL USELESS!

WRONG! The patient has died.

Spiced cider round 2

"Gasp! That is Beau-tee-full" – Riya (3yrs old)

"Thank you! I'm so excited to open it!" Riya (3yrs old)

Late night jam sesh and Imitation Game: Taylor Swift edition

Rugrats All Grown Up: Tobogganing Under the Influence

Overthrowing the common area with wings, pizza, and eventually...an attack on the nightly 8pm milk and cookies

Do you have strong people? Yep. Okay, then you can go with the heavy sleds. It's about 65 lbs and you'll have to carry it a quarter mile back up to the top. Um....take that back. We'll have the light sleds.

Geo "catching" in the ... hotel parking lot 

Reverse weight, 34mph, the most enthusiastic tobogganers in all of Fremont, IN

"I'm bored. Wanna take mugshots?"

Luxury tobogganing: cup holders and cushioned back rests

"Ashley didi, can lions go to kid school?"

VicToria never Tells me any of her secreTs

Foo Foo

"I only cheat once, and that's when I'm tallying up the scores at the end" – Dada

Dada Sangeet

Gen X learned Fruit Ninja last year, and this year, they've moved on to YouTube2mp3 and iTunes uploads 

Failed Gujarati attempts: “Nah Say!”

Trouble with the Grandparents

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

Ira Glass (of This American Life)

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Looking your best isn’t about vanity. Instead, it’s about investing in self-improvement. Keeping high standards for your appearance will help you feel happier and be more successful.

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The fact that music can induce goosebumps, draw a tear, inspire, and connect is one of my favourite parts of being a human.

Mark Hoppus

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Even when people fail to reciprocate it, never apologize for the love you give. That’s your sacred haven, you felt that.

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Fluorescent Adolescence by Ruth Bamuwamye

Overqualified yet underachieving

It's singing delightfully off key to the radio Yet pitch perfect in the shower It's spending a half hour in the morning Perfecting your messy bun It's gelling bedhead It's lifting weights yet covering yourself up in turtlenecks It's being a closet philosopher but blaming lackluster grades on "not trying?" It's tumbling,sharing, instagramming The perpetual pursuit of cool but aloof, hard to get, wit, sarcasm, invincibility.

It's the cycle of hurting Fixing loving hating wanting lying... and then telling the truth. It sucks. But perhaps when we're older a new set of problems will cause us to miss those of adolescence. So I guess we should learn to love the pain, Since it's pain that allows us to live and love radically, feel monumentally, and smell the coffee or watch the stars, or hear the music that we might later pass by in the rush of the real world.

For now we are poets And activists Astronauts Bloggers Writers Photographers Teachers Engineers and Inventors For now, we are what we want to be. Some say the grass is greener on the other side but I'd disagree: I say our grass fluorescent.

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Think Like a Freak

Kids aren’t afraid to like the things they like. They don’t say they want to go to the opera when they’d rather play video games. They don’t pretend they’re enjoying a meeting when they really want to get up and run around. Kids are in love with their own audacity, mesmerized by the world around them, and unstoppable in their pursuit of fun.

But in one of the strangest wrinkles of human development, these traits magically evaporate in most people by their 21st birthday.

There are certain realms in which having fun, or even looking like you’re having fun, is practically forbidden. Politics for one, academic too. And while some forms have lately been spicing things up with gamification, most or the business world remains allergic to fun.

Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren’t serious. But, best we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do.

-Steven D. Levity and Stephen J. Dubner

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The title is deceiving of the content, but it's a great perspective that I share about being able to find yourself and your confidence before all else. 

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My place of love, beauty, and comfort. 

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Both Bodies

I definitely love this new "love your body movement" and the promotion of people being cautious about how they speak about someone's exterior. You don't know everyones story, and, in my opinion, jumping to conclusions is one of the harshest things someone can do. Changing the way people see and comment on other peoples bodies plays a crucial role in improving the relationships within society between all types of different people and improving ourselves, our confidence, and our happiness.

I just have one comment about it.

I know the majority of the world is on one end of the spectrum, but people should be aware that it applies to both.

For some reason strangers and even friends have been at it this past week with my weight. I've learned to just let it fly because, trust me I know - being too skinny is probably the best kind of problem someone can have - but I still don't think it's okay to insult someone about their weight, no matter large or small, especially in public. 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but being called "chicken legs," "unhealthily skinny," or "anorexic" stings just as many of the derogatory terms directed towards people struggling with being overweight do.