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There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Dennis Lehane, Mystic River (via books-n-quotes)

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I feel like I’m constantly in the future.  Looking ahead.  It makes me miss out on what’s happening in front of me.  I can’t even look in the past.  I don’t remember what I did yesterday.  Sorry for this random post.  I just need to say things.  Damn.

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Christmas

So, it’s the day after Christmas.  I’m not sure exactly how to feel about it.  The holidays stopped feeling like the holidays a little bit ago.  I’m not saying I hate Christmas, but it’s losing whatever feeling it had that made it enjoyable.  I’m not sure how to get it back.  Being with my family doesn’t really help.  Everyone is home and I don’t know how to deal with that.  I don’t hate them, but it’s hard for me to enjoy anything when I have people constantly near me trying to pry into everythign that’s happening in my life.  Why would they care about every aspect of my life?  I don’t care about everything in their life, but I can still like them.  They’re just going off of what people expect of them.  They want to put on this illusion of caring so that everyone else looks at them and thinks, “What a caring person.”  It’s annoying and it makes me come off as rude when I don’t want to talk to anyone.

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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?

Richard Dawkins, ‘Unweaving the Rainbow’ (via scientificphilosopher)

Is it really that bad if you are never born?  You never feel anything, sure, but maybe they’re the lucky ones.  They never know pain, or sadness at all.  They never get to feel left out because they don’t know that they’re missing anything.  We, on the other hand, have to live with the knowledge that there is pain and suffering in the world.  Then there are the even lesser number of us who get to know that living is a possibility, but are never able to partake it the good that it brings.  There are people out there who can’t wait to get back to that state of nothingness because not knowing anything is better than the realization that there is something that you’re missing out on.  They see those people as the privileged.  The ones who were never hurt in the first place.

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