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[benjaminblueforever]

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

— Helen Keller

[benjaminblueforever]

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”

— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith

[benjaminblueforever]

“I think it’s beautiful the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.”

— Atticus

[benjaminblueforever]

I think what really gets me about mgs2 is it does the whole deconstruction of the first game. It tells you directly that this is all a setup, that you like Raiden have fallen into this false reality, asks how far you will go into the brutal war game, tells you to stop and turn off the console, accurate predicts the internets role in censorship and the rise of fascism in the USA, tricks you into fulfilling the pre-selected path you though you had already defeated. Yet it never belittles the player for our actions. Instead snake turns to Raiden and the player to tell us that this isn’t over, we have to find our own identity’s outside of this. We have too, not just for ourselves but for everyone we love and ever will love. We can’t let this experience define what we believe in and fight for. we are the only ones who can decide that. It could have so easily been a doomerism “we are all fucked and it your fault and your stupid for ever caring about our game” but its not. It grabs your hand and tells you it’s not your fault and we have to keep fighting. I don’t know it fucks me up

[benjaminblueforever]

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

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Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.

Nathan W. Morris

[benjaminblueforever]

Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.

Emery Allen

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some fishe studies pt 1 orbicular batfish juvenile || rainbowfish

[benjaminblueforever]

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[benjaminblueforever]

Welcome to the new year

Old photos on the wall. Old emotions

Stained glass pain close to shattering

And so it did

And how I'm no longer bound to you

My love dimmed, but did not blow out

It's where you can no longer see

Where I know you will never seek it out

Or seek me

Shame

But the page turns anyway and the bandaids rip off my skin

I'll remember it well but can't ever go back...

[benjaminblueforever]

“We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve”

— Unknown

[benjaminblueforever]

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

— Ernest Hemingway

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“Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.”

— Stephen Levine

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“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[benjaminblueforever]

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket