forsythiaas - Tumblr blog

[forsythiaas]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[forsythiaas]

“Besides, readers aren’t viewers; they recognize their pleasure as different from that of being entertained. Once you’ve pressed the on button, the TV goes on, and on, and on, and all you have to do is sit and stare. But reading is active, an act of attention, of absorbed alertness—not all that different from hunting, in fact, or from gathering. In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won’t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won’t do the work for you. To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not “interactive” with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind. No wonder not everybody is up to it.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, “Staying Awake”

[forsythiaas]

Learning to drive so that i may have a more complex and nuanced understanding of the themes within bruce springsteens music

[forsythiaas]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[forsythiaas]

⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

[forsythiaas]

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

[forsythiaas]

I love learning things like this

[forsythiaas]

discovering im on fire by bruce springsteen in your teenage years is like uncovering a secret ancient artifact of horniness and despair

[forsythiaas]

please document your life; take pictures and videos, keep a journal & record voice notes…the most insignificant moments will become some of your favourite memories one day

[forsythiaas]

via sandw1tchshop

[forsythiaas]

Is it just me or does having a positive interaction with a stranger scratch a very particular itch? I think it's the reassurance that the world is not split solely into people who already love you and people who never will.

[forsythiaas]

getting over things is nonlinear. but you already knew that

[forsythiaas]

“But things work out, you know. Even if it doesn’t feel OK for a long time, or even if it feels like things will never be OK again, (things) work out in the end.”

— Lauren Morrill

[forsythiaas]

your guardian angel told me to tell you that it’ll be okay and that you should just take it easy for the next few days

[forsythiaas]

truisms, times square, new york by jenny holzer, 1982 via steffan

[forsythiaas]

the bond between a girl and her room is stronger than the gravitational force of the earth

[forsythiaas]