Why is it always "Do you use IG/snap?" and never "Share your Spotify profile." or "Add me on Goodreads."
Boys be like "Do you got snap?," "Are you on Instagram?," "Do you use Discord?"
Darling, I got an address, send me flowers and letters.
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I know you’ve heard the saying before, the old adage of ‘familiarity breeds contempt’. The simple but logical idea that if you spend too much time with someone or do something too much you will eventually see flaws in the things you once adored. As much as I do appreciate the premise, like the true millennial I am, I’m afraid I would like to give this proverb the remix that absolutely no one asked for. I hear your motto and I raise you ‘familiarity breeds contentment.’
Without a shadow of a doubt I am lazy a creature of habit and I really do get a sick kick out of a good, reliable, unchanging routine. The more futile the routine the better, there’s something about being propped up by the familiarity of a well trodden tradition that just feels right. Like a semi threadbare hoodie that you can’t stop putting on despite it being well past its wear-by date. Therefore I’d have to say either I am the exception to the aforementioned rule or this rule is simply no longer fit for purpose. In a world that is constantly fluctuating between utter chaos and relative insanity I find my self yearning for all things familiar more than ever.
—Leah Davis, Familiarity Breeds… Contentment?, Sistem Magazine.
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
—Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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"Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. the new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open."
—Stephen Russell, Barefoot Doctor's Guide to the Tao: A Spiritual Handbook for the Urban Warrior
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“Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurthy
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"You’ve brought me back to myself, you’ve caught me out and explained me to myself!"
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, an endless rehearsal of a show that will never play.”
—Hipolito, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
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And when Taylor Swift said "I'm always waiting for you just to cut to the bone. Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes. And if I bleed, you'll be the last to know."
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And then there are mosquitoes that consider you as buffet.
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"There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender."
—Dulce Maria Loynaz, Absolute Solitude
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