#understanding-others

[thepersonalwords]

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

[inkskinned]

i love you vaccines i love you research i love you reading the book instead of having chatgpt summarize it i love you critically thinking rather than reacting to a headline i love you investigating the source material i love you science i love you math even though you are personally my enemy (math/yn slowburn) i love you writing even though you try to stab me a lot i love you Experts in Your Field i love you Using The Brain

[theboxfort]

Peace and love

[dramatic-dolphin]

when we were studying the bible in literature class (so we have the context necessary for later works that reference the bible), i think we were at the book of jonah, and one of my classmates was studying the text very intently, and then looked up and earnestly said "professor, i don't understand the will of god"

the teacher was just like. well sadly i am a literature teacher and not a priest so i can't help you there. but if it helps, many people throughout history had the same problem.

[sapphicathenas]

anyone else thinking about effie spending 24 years watching haymitch completely fall apart. effie, who met haymitch by accident, who knows exactly what kind of person he is, who sees him every year on his birthday for 24 years and each year he’s drunker, each year he’s angrier, each year he’s faster to give up. and then they get katniss and peeta. peeta, who is kind and open and understanding, who refuses to give up on haymitch. and katniss, who is so much like haymitch at 16 that it hurts. and over the few days they’re together, effie watches haymitch come back to life. watches him try. watches him have hope. and then they get to keep not one but both of those kids. they get to come home. and then, less then a year later, effie pulls haymitch’s name at the reaping.

[churroach]

Full of Desires

[chloesimaginationthings]

Harley Sawyer is a very normal man from Poppy playtime

[bluismie]

“There you are. There’s my Viktor.”

[creekfiend]

something that drives me insane on a relatively regular basis as a body jewelry understander is talking to people who have sensitive skin who are like "oh well I just can't wear any earrings without my ears getting inflamed" and I say "well what have you tried" and they say "well I've tried sterling silver and I've tried gold..." and it's like. ok. I don't know how gold and sterling somehow got spun by the jewelry industry as being especially good for sensitive skin but whenever I'm like "well have you tried implant grade titanium" they're always like "no....... but I've tried sterling silver... and it didn't work ..." like. I don't know how this narrative about sterling silver somehow got so strong but when they put pins in your fucking legs when you snap your leg in half are those pins made of sterling silver or are they made of implant grade titanium or surgical steel????????? HELLO. HI. YOU MIGHT BENEFIT FROM TRYING IMPLANT GRADE TITANIUM I AM JUST SAYING

[ruegarding]

that scene in tlo where thalia tells percy he can't start feeling sorry for luke bc luke made his choices. and thalia reveals that the reason they couldn't make it to camp in time for all of them to make it to camp was bc luke kept picking fights. and annabeth never saw this as wrong bc luke was her hero. so thalia had to pick up the pieces. and percy thinking both that luke was put in a cruel position and that luke was putting others in a cruel position. and percy is the only character who understood both sides of luke bc annabeth sees only the best of him and thalia sees only the worst. and that's why percy is the prophecy kid and the one who gives luke the knife. bc annabeth had spent the entire series essentially giving luke the knife when he didn't deserve it. and thalia was never going to give luke the knife. but percy is the only one who can see exactly when luke deserves the knife.

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004

[thepersonalwords]

Let’s make the world brighter for that is all we need to be better! If I am bright and you are bright then the world will be brighterIf I am dark and you are dark then the world will be darkerLet’s make the world brighter for brightness is all we need to be better!Let’s make the world relevant for that is all we need to be relevantIf I am relevant and you are relevant then we shall all be relevantIf I am irrelevant and you are relevant then I will disturb your relevanceLet’s make the world relevant for that is the epitome of life!Let’s make the world faithful for faithfulness is all we need to be faithful!If I am faithful and you are faithful then the world will be faithfulIf I am unfaithful and you are faithful then I will disturb your faithfulnessLet’s make the world faithful for faithfulness is the fountain of peace

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

[kiisaes]

midoriya-sensei!

[forgettable-au]

But that's dessert!

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[churomo]

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