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H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y ! !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SOUL BESTIE!! (CACTY hehe @reveriies thats u)

Sorry I'm getting worse and worse at doing these at midnight lol your girl has the attention span of a turtle (do turtles have short attention spans? it seems like they would so..) and I'm sorry T_T. But our birthday post traditions are honestly something I loveeee so much, how else can we look back each year and cringe and reminesce over how old we've gotten hehe?? TBH my day started out kinda crappy but I feel like I'm getting more and more cheerful as I'm writing these messages LOL YAY. But time for that general overview of being 24, I think we got to see each other a fair bit because I ended up visiting pretty often this past fall/winter so I'm happy about that! It's always so nice to catch up, despite the random gaps we always manage to try and fill each other in about the big stuff in life. And somehow we end up always going through similar things in life haha if that's not fate then I honestly don't know what is :') See even life is telling us that we're meant to be best friends #cheesy. Is it silly that I'm actually listening to the Gazette as I type this at work to get me extra nostalgic? But in honestly (I've also probably said this each year oops) I still look back on those days where we would just sit at prince edward island park and listen to kagrra and breaking benjamin and melt all our feelings into the songs. I can still feel the sun shining and the blue sky seems etched into my memory. I'm really grateful to have met you when I did that one day in grade five and to have gone through so many silly but necessary phases in our lives. I definitely wouldn't have have been the same person and I don't think I would have had as many precious memories without you! I truly hope this year will be amazing for you and that you find what you're looking for! I know new beginnings are currently happening and possibly more so hehe but do remember that I'll always be here no matter what to listen and rant ^_^ I hope this year brings us lots more catch up sessions and MAYBE one day we will live in the same city again (that's something that's forever on my wishlist) whether it be Calgary or Seattle or maybe a new exciting undiscovered city (ATLANTIS)?? But really! I think anything is a lot less scary when we're together so I really cherish that :) Sooo if I haven't re-iterated it yet you're suuuuper important to me and I'd like hope you know!!!!! ALSO omg the sun came out as I was writing this IS THIS ANOTHER SIGN? #fate but GO ENJOY YOU'RE DAY NOW. and I hope you're eating lotsa cake and sweets and I hope this entire message mde some kinda sense.

Love, Leafy (lmao I got it right time)

PS. HAPPY QUARTER BIRTHDAY

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HACHI <3

Time for our once a year return to tumblr - I honestly don’t know if you still check this haha, maybe you’ll get a notification if I tag you @reveriies. It’s really craaazy how fast time is flying by, I’m just checking our last few tumblr posts and it’s been all birthday posts. How many years has it been since we were constantly scrolling through tumblr in our free time and reblogging everything and obsessing over the gazette and whatever bands we were obsessed with? Like Brandon haha. I’m so happy you have so many of his posts saved. It’s a weird feeling thinking back to that time, being in junior high, then high school, then university - and now here we are, the working life. I’m super grateful to have had you in my life for all those years. Even though half the time we weren’t in the same school, or even in the same city for that matter. I feel like no matter how far away we are from each other, we’ll always be connected somehow.  I know things are kinda confusing right now, with work and life in general. It’s strange being in a place where we don’t have any huge milestones left, and we’re just set off to walk whatever path we chose. But I think no matter what you decide to do, you’ll be able to do it beautifully! Adult life is definitely a struggle, but I think we’re doing alright, right? I know things can be stressful and crazy but remember you have an amazing coworkers, and friends, and family and that’s cause you’re an amazing gal yourself (: I will always be here for you no matter what!!  Okay time to take a lighter turn IDK I’m feeling very nostalgic for some reason ahahaha. Probably cause I reread all the birthday posts and end up thinking about how much time has passed and how we’ve changed. Buttttt I hope you’re having a great daaaaay so far!! With lots of cake!! UGH and you need to visit me soon so I can take you to eat lots of yummy desserts and coffee and brunch places in seattle! I’m still waiting for the day we can be in the same city but I’m grateful we’re just a lot closer distance wise so I got to see you a lot more this past year. Thanks for always making time for me everytime I come homee (I know Sven gets jelly :p) and do know that I loveeee our coffee/brunch/anything dates the most!! 

Okay I think the one thing that hasn’t changed about these posts is that my thoughts are all over the place every single time. oops. haha but all in all IDK if I got my point across, I’m just super happy that you’re in my life!! 

Thanks for being my faaaavorite person!! Stay perfect bestie<3  Sincerely,

Nana

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR HACHI

I haven’t been on tumblr in forever, but I can’t bear to be the one to break our tradition haha, altho IDK if you’ll actually even see this. I’m actually writing this in between studying for my midterm tomorrow, so my thoughts are gonna be totally jumbled but I hope you don’t mind! Anyways, lets go down that long road of reminiscing.. I hope the pictures I sent have been helping haha. It’s ridiculous how all of a sudden you look and it’s like, holy shit we’re actually growing up. Could we have imagined it those 10 something years ago, that we would be about to graduate from engineering, with full time jobs lined up, and still remain as close if not closer best friends as we were all those years ago? It’s like at this point, I don’t ever expect to find anyone who can understand me and fit as well together with as we do. Maybe we really were twins in our past life or something LOOL. Even though we’re both going down our separate ways, I’m so glad that I can always look back and we’d still be making so many memories together, whether from Stampede with everyone to being front row to 3 doors down, to food festivals in the summer and finally getting to see the Gazette. Speaking of the Gazette, do you still remember this? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151397007655370&set=p.10151397007655370&type=3&theater 

And we have so much to look forward to in the future too. I hope we’ll get to go to lots of concerts together and I’m really looking forward to your Seattle visits! I feel like I can at least look forward to being a whole 3 hours plane ride closer to you guys in Calgary. And maybe who knows, a few years down the road and maybe we’ll get to live in the same city together (finally) whether that be Toronto or Seattle or somewhere totally different. It’s our twenties and we have so much to look forward to! Thank you for always being there for me every time I have to rant or talk about something, I don’t know what I’d do without youu! I hope you know that I’m always here for whateverrr you need, and I really hope you have the most perfect day today (or this weekend if you’re celebrating then)!! When i come back this summer we will eat lots of yummy cake and dessert to make up for all the birthdays I miss :( 

HAPPPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE CUTEST BESTIE IN THE WHOLE WOOOORLD <3 

@reveriies 

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I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can’t even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk

Franz Kafka (via wordsnquotes)

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a list of untranslatable words ☕️

cafuné - brazilian portuguese: the act of running one’s fingers, gently but deeply, through someone else’s hair 積ん読 (tsundoku) - japanese: the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other such unread books 木漏れ日 (komorebi) - japanese: sunlight filtering through the trees mångata - swedish: the roadlike reflection of moonlight on water verklempt - yiddish: a person who is too emotional to speak liefdesverdriet - dutch: the heartache caused from an unrequited love and the mental pains one endures; the physical pain of depression fika - swedish/finnish: gathering together to talk and take a break from everyday routines, usually drinking coffee and eating pastries 幽玄 (yūgen) - japanese: an indescribable sentiment, can only be described as a painful awareness of the mysterious beauty and human suffering l'esprit de l'escalier - french: the moment one finally thinks of a witty remark, far too late, after the opportunity has passed kilig - tagalog: the feeling of butterflies in your stomach, usually when something romantic or cute takes place いるす (irusu) - japanese: pretending to be absent from home when someone is at the door habseligkeiten - german: personal belongings, small treasures and property, which define our happiness and sentiments nefelibata - portuguese: cloud walker; name given to the quixotic dreamers, they appear spacey, otherworldly, but intelligent σοφρωσύνη (sophrosyne) - greek: self-control, balance, wisdom & grace;virtue that follows the aphorisms “nothing in excess” & “know thyself" hiraeth - welsh: homesickness for a place which never even existed. Connotations of sadness, yearning, profound nostalgia and wistfulness torpe - tagalog: being too shy to pursue amorous desires waldeinsamkeit - german: the feeling of being alone in the woods litost - czech: the humiliated despair we feel when someone accidentally reminds us, trough their accomplishment, of our inadequacies dustsceawung - old english: contemplation of the fact that dust used to be other things - the walls of a city, a book, a great tree… duende - spanish: the spirit of evocation; the mysterious power a work of art has to deeply move a person gattara - italian: a woman, often old and lonely, who devotes herself to stray cats tоска - russian: a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause, a longing with nothing to long for, nostalgia φιλότιμο (philotimo) - greek: a complex array of virtues; expressed through acts of generosity & sacrifice w/o expecting anything in return  gezellig - dutch: abstract sensation of individual well-being that one shares with others;cozy ambience, anything pleasant, homely, friendly

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There are a few things in life so beautiful they hurt: swimming in the ocean while it rains, reading alone in empty libraries, the sea of stars that appear when you’re miles away from the neon lights of the city, bars after 2am, walking in the wilderness, all the phases of the moon, the things we do not know about the universe, and you.

Beau Taplin, “And You” (via wordsnquotes)

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You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything’s different.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (via shinat0se)

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Put your hand on a stove for a minute & it feels like an hour, Sit with a beautiful girl for a hour & it feels like an minute. This is how Albert Einstein defined Relativity,

But I believe that youth is relativity. That you could spend your 20s inching along safe in social constructs, Or you could spend your days in new towns, new places, with new faces, chasing new destinations,

So do you live your youth slow & painful? Or fast & free?

This is the theory of youth. (Book Coming Soon)

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gemini , virgo , taurus , capricorn , aquarius

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Sun sets, Scott Naismith

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London stop making me fall in love with you?!?

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We were always going to say goodbye, weren’t we?” “Yeah. I think so.“ “I loved you though. I loved you so much.” A pause. “I know. I know. “I loved you too.”

S.Z. // Excerpt from a book I’ll never write #185 (via blossomfully)

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She kept saying “I don’t care about it, I don’t care anymore.” But for the life of me I couldn’t figure out whether that meant she really didn’t care or that she cared too much.

Sue Zhao (via blossomfully)

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“Where do you want to go?”

“Anywhere with you.”

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Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence in your life becomes something to be avoided at all costs. Miss them until you don’t have to anymore, until you’re reunited in your favorite booth in your favorite restaurant ordering your favorite meal, miss them until it feels like you never left. Or miss them until you can’t anymore, until the things you miss are identified and cataloged as things and not a person, until you figure out that easy company and long talks and unblinking, all-knowing eye contact will find you again the way they found you the first time. Miss someone until you don’t.

Stephanie Georgopulus, How To Miss Someone (via thelovejournals)