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https://archiveofourown.org/works/27268423/chapters/66619771

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if reincarnation was real, i’d like to be a witch, or a philosopher, maybe a scientist in the midst of an apocalypse, perhaps something more.

Thinking about this, and the fig tree metaphor made me realise that we have so much we have yet to live.

So much that one life isn’t enough for us to fulfil all desires within us. Yet one life is what we have.

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I wish you’d look at me the way I look at you

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This blog rules. I love all the readings and excerpts in your selfhood tag. Do you have any kind of reading list for existential philosophy you could share? I've been really wanting to dive in lately but I'm intimidated about where to start.

hey you rule also.

here's everything i've been surrounding myself with lately—not limited to existential philosophy but i think all migrating through the same waters:

Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus; The Stranger; The Plague Sartre, Nausea; Being and Nothingness E.M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay; The Trouble With Being Born R.D. Laing, The Divided Self Jung, Modern Man In Search of a Soul; Psychology and the Occult Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark Kafka, The Trial Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness; Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era Kay Redfield Jamison, Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The Psychology of Spirituality The Tibetan Book of the Dead

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The Dance of Perspectives and Beliefs: Shaping Our Worldview

Our lives are a delicate interplay of perspectives and beliefs, two elements that quietly sculpt the contours of our worldview. As we navigate the complex tapestry of existence, our perspectives serve as the lens through which we view the world, while our beliefs lay the foundation upon which our decisions and actions are built.

Perspectives Shape Beliefs: Our perspectives, which are influenced by our upbringing, culture, experiences, and personal values, play a significant role in shaping our beliefs. When we encounter new information or ideas, our existing perspectives filter and interpret that information, leading to the formation or reinforcement of our beliefs.

Beliefs Influence Perspectives: Conversely, our beliefs also influence our perspectives. When we strongly hold a particular belief, it can color the way we perceive and interpret the world around us. This can lead to confirmation bias, where we tend to seek out information that supports our existing beliefs and filter out information that contradicts them.

Openness to New Perspectives: Philosophically and intellectually, being open to new perspectives is a key aspect of critical thinking and personal growth. It involves being willing to challenge and reconsider our beliefs when presented with new evidence or alternative viewpoints. Without this openness, perspectives can become rigid and closed.

Diversity of Perspectives: A diverse range of perspectives in society is essential for a well-rounded and vibrant exchange of ideas. When people with different perspectives come together, it can lead to constructive dialogue, innovation, and a deeper understanding of complex issues.

Cognitive Dissonance: When our perspectives and beliefs come into conflict, it can create cognitive dissonance — a state of mental discomfort. This discomfort often motivates individuals to either adjust their beliefs or seek out information that confirms their existing beliefs, depending on various factors such as the strength of the belief and the individual's willingness to confront contradictions.

Worldview: Our perspectives and beliefs collectively form our worldview, which is the overarching framework through which we interpret and make sense of the world. A worldview encompasses our views on ethics, reality, purpose, and the nature of existence, among other things.

In summary, perspectives and beliefs are deeply intertwined, with each influencing and being influenced by the other. They shape our understanding of the world, our values, and our interactions with others, making them essential components of human cognition and experience.

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Here is a familiar picture: a girl surrounded by people she knows opens her mouth and shuts it again, the way one does with a shoe-box of old things that are precious only to the one who owns them. This is a self-imposed silence that emerges from understanding that a braided string, a misshapen crystal, and a blackened eraser stabbed 23 times have no worldly purpose. But with the profound solitude of loving something that no one else loves comes the lifelong necessity of loving that something enough to make up for the solitude. This is an ultimate truth. But most days it will feel like a burden. This is the other ultimate truth.

Sometimes there is a dull pulse in my ears which speaks of the absurdity of gravity: how all things must eventually fall, like apples, like arrow-shot birds, like people who’ve climbed to the top. It is as much a scientific fact as it is a personal doomsday clock (in fact there is a good deal of overlap between the two). But when you bear the responsibility of loving something, you cannot particularly afford to fall. It’s about pride. Or maybe pride is the bandaid-word for shame. Either way, your eraser parodies of Roman dictators are still waiting for you to come home, so come home you must.

But yes, some days, you will not want to come home. For instance, the day you come to the realisation that you exist purely as a convenient concept to most people you know is possibly crushing, depending on the person who inadvertently induces this realisation. Doomsday science pulls you back down to Earth—after years of believing that you’re more than just a figment of other people’s imaginations, your feet finally touch the ground. There is soil caught uncomfortably between your toes. Most people will never know this. In fact, you understand now that most people probably forget you even have toes.

I really believe now that to him, I’ll always be 17 years old, bright in useless ways and clumsy with my mouth and heart and hands. Forgiving to a fault, laughably predictable, and always, always beneath him. And I believe now that to them, I’ll always be a female option before I am my own person. It will never matter to them what I like to read or what keeps me awake at night or what that idiotic crystal meant to me when I was ten. And I believe now that to them, I am just an accommodating, one-dimensional idea attached to a four-syllable word.

They don’t tell you how hard it is to resist throwing out the whole goddamned shoe-box. But you know you’d regret it. Sure, it’s terribly old and it’s kind of musty and useless, but it’s yours. Even if no one gives it a second glance, even if they throw it down and step on it and spit on it, it’s yours. It hurts when they don’t see you as a person. But I am not an idiot who opens her shoe-box to people who don’t want to understand a thing. Closing my mouth is an act of pride, not shame. Precious things should be kept safe for those who love them, and to hell with those that don’t. This is my favourite ultimate truth.

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"fuck it we ball" is for stress about the future "it is what it is" is for stress about the past and "this too shall pass" is for stress about the present thank you for coming to my TED talk

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It is Cold

The weather is cold and listless. The seething sea hostile and frigid, the air cruel, piercing, and pregnant with an apocalyptic volume of water vapour, a tsunami threatening to burst forth out of the strained intermolecular forces of the paper-thin, unforgiving atmosphere. 

It is cold. The very spaces between the air molecules, the vacuum that is the staggering majority of the universe, the absolute nothingness that exists between two adjacent subatomic particles, even the regions of the infinite expanse of spacetime where the fields of quantum physics exhibit no curve or bend, even nothingness itself was cold. A chilling, merciless, sharp cold. A kind of coldness that is addictive. That burns torturously but enticingly, that slices the heart bitterly and lovingly. The kind of cold that gets to you. That gets to your bones, to your souls, to your memories. That chills your evolutionary desire to maintain homeostasis and leaves you longing to curl up and freeze, to submit, to give yourself up, to obey to the calmness, to the stillness of the coolness. 

The weather is cold. It is very cold. 

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In the haze

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Nadja Bender for vogue japan (2013)

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are you guys OK. sometimes i get the vibe, that you are at your wits end

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A Masterpost.ೃ࿐

John bento Diet Plan + Workout - long story short he's a pos freak like any man but his workouts are known to slay (pics of pdf are attached at the end) and Victoria's Secret models' diets and meals

This post is for motivation and inspiration and contains workouts and diets used by VS models

(sorry for any typos)

01 Pre Workout

No carbs for about 2-3 hours before you work out. This means no fruit, juice, bread, rice, pasta, or potatoes before a workout. A carbohydrate is a form of energy, and if you have simple or complex carbs in your system, as you’re working out, your body will use the carbs/sugars as a fuel source instead of the body fat/calories you’re wanting to burn. If you need to eat something before you work out, make sure it’s a lean/low-calorie protein and/or veggie. 

Examples: eggs, avocados, veggies, salad, lean protein, protein shake

02 Dinner

Eliminate carbs after 3 pm and for dinner. If you have carbs in your stomach at night you won't be active enough to burn them off before you go to bed. Your body will convert those carbs to fat while you are sleeping. Remember to make your dinner mainly veggie-based and if you need/want some protein make it a small serving.

03 Post Workout

Since we’re trying to atrophy some muscle off your hips and waist, don't have any protein after you work out for about 1-2 hours. You can have veggies, fruit, a little juice, and/or a small serving of starchy carbs after you workout. Just be sure to keep your starchy complex carbs low throughout the day,

04 Any Additional Exercise Outside of this Method

Weights for the upper body are fine. Leave your legs and glutes strictly to body weight exercises and cardio. Weights, machines, and certain lower body exercises add muscle to your glutes, quads, and hip flexors which increase your hip measurements. No squats, lunges, or deadlifts. To keep measurements down stick to mostly cardio. Do slow jogs to get your heart rate elevated without working your glutes, quads, and flexors too much. If you want to add more exercises try yoga or pilates.

Workout One

Equipment needed: 2-3 lb ankle weights

Time needed: 60-90 minutes

3 Sets

5-minute jog on the treadmill at 5.00-6.00 mph or 10-15 minute light jog outside or 3 sets of 2 minutes heel to butt jogging in place

20 stretch and crunch

50 scissor kicks for lower abs

3 Sets

50 hip twist jumps

50 plank twists for core

15 reach-through twists (on your forearm or hand

3 Sets

50 cross jacks

20 crunches

20 reverse crunches

20 crunches

20 reverse crunches

20 crunches

20 reverse crunches

3 Sets

50 hip twist jumps

20 swan crunches

50 leg raises for inner thigh with 2-3 lb ankle weights

3 Sets

50 steps running in place (heel to butt)

50 side-to-side jumps (little jumps side to side at a jump rope pace)

25 inner thigh v’s with 2-3 lb ankle weights

Workout Two

Equipment needed: 2-3 lb ankle weights, washcloth, or sliding discs

Time needed: 45-60 minutes

3 Sets

5-minute jog on the treadmill at 5.0-6.0 mph or 10-15 minutes light jog outside, or 3 sets of 2 minutes heel to butt jogging in place

20 stretch and crunch

30 human saws with either washcloth, slider discs, or no equipment

3 Sets

50 hip twist jumps

50 modified donkey kicks with 2-3 lb ankle weights

20 plank twists

20 supermans for upper/middle/lower back

3 Sets

50 cross jacks

30 scissor kicks

20 reverse crunches

30 scissor kicks

20 reverse crunches

30 scissor kicks

20 reverse crunches

3 Sets

50 hip twist jumps

20 pyramid push-ups with crunch

25 inverted v’s for glute toning with ankle weights

3 Sets

50 steps running in place with 2-3 lb ankle weights (heel to butt)

30 hand tap planks

50 straight leg raises for upper/outer glutes with 2-3 lb ankle weights

Workout Three

Equipment needed: 2-3 lb ankle weights, washcloth/sliding discs, optional jump rope

Time needed: 45-60 minutes

5-minute jog on the treadmill at 5.0-6.0 mph or 10-15 minutes light jog outside, or 3 sets of 2 minutes heel to butt jogging in place

3 Sets

50 hip twist jumps

12 cross-leg pikes on each side

3 Sets

50 half jacks or 2-minute jump rope

30 plank twists

20 hamstring slides

3 Sets

50 steps running in place with 2-3 lb ankle weights (heel to butt)

30 human saws with washcloth, sliding discs, or body weight

20/20 inner thigh circles with ankle weights

Workout Four

Equipment needed: 2-5 lb dumbbells, optional jump rope

Time needed: 45-60 minutes

2-5 lb Dumbell Workout

5-minute jog on the treadmill at 5.0-6.0 mph or 10-15 minutes light jog outside, or 3 sets of 2 minutes heel to butt jogging in place

3 Sets

50 hip twist jumps

100 weighted punches (50 counting by 25)

20 weighted crunches

50 weighted russian twists

3 Sets

50 steps heel to butt running in place

20 tricep kickbacks

20 reverse flys

20 crunch flys

20 windshield wiper oblique twists

20 tricep dips

5-minute joke at 5-6 mph or 1-2 minute jump rope or 100 hee; to butt running in place

Workout Five

Equipment needed: none/optional jump rope

Time needed: 45-60 minutes

No Nonsense Treadmill Workout 

5 Sets

5-minute jog 5-6 mph

20 stretch and crunch

1-2 minutes jumping rope or jump twists

20 reverse crunches

Workout Six

Equipment needed: 2-3 lb ankle weights, optional jump rope

Time needed: 45-60 minutes

No Nonsense Home Workout

5 Sets

50 hip twist jumps

20 stretch and crunch

1-2 minute jumping rope or 100 heel to butt running in place

20 reverse crunches

20/20 inner thigh circles with ankle weights

VS Model Diets

Victoria’s Secret Model’s Food Recommendations

Breakfast

Oatmeal

Overnight oats

Chia seed pudding

Eggs and avocado toast

Protein smoothie 

Smoothie bowl

Homemade granola or fresh fruit with Greek yogurt

Lunch

Chicken salad with brown rice/quinoa and fresh veggies

Grilled chicken with teriyaki sauce and greens

Grilled fish with fresh or boiled veggies 

Dinner

Veggie soup

Salad with lean protein, such as chicken or fish

Fresh veggie salad 

Sushi

Chicken with roasted veggies 

Snacks

Berries

Nuts

Nut butters with fresh fruit

Fruit

Protein shakes

Homemade energy bars

Hummus and veggies

Model Favorites

(links to their workouts and diets)

Sara Sampaio - eggs and avocado toast, greek yogurt with fresh fruit, homemade protein pancakes

 Barbara Palvin - overnight oats, homemade granola with greek yogurt

Gizele Oliveira - grilled fish with veggies

Martha Hunt - salads with her favorite ingredients being kale, avocado, arugala, grilled chicken, and tuna

Adriana Lima - grilled chicken salad

Devon Windsor - thai chicken soup, ratatouille, and warm chicken bowls containinging sweet potatoes, zucchini, brown rice, quinoa, and arugula

Lily Aldridge - grilled steak

Other questions and answers:

How many meals do VS models eat a day? Many of them stick to 5 smaller meals eating every three hours

What do models eat to prepare for a show? VS models avoid all sugar except for natural sugars in some fruits, alcohol, salt, and limit carbs intensely

Do VS models drink alcohol? Generally no, alcohol is nothing but empty calories and can cause some bloating

Do VS models do intermittent fasting? Yes! Models such as Georgia Fowler and Bridget Malcolm both have found positive results from intermittent fasting.

during this time many models get their low carbs from vegetables, Ezekiel bread, and brown rice

some models go as far as to cut all carbs out weeks before the show as seen by Shanina Shaik

reminder that restriction is a part of their job - unless you plan on being on the runway anytime soon you don't need to cut the sugar and carbs in the intense ways some models do

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Reasons why I like tumblr

1. None of my family is on here

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the colours of winter...

Brown cocoa and coffee. Sky blue tinges on the fallen snow. Black fingers of trees, the growing blackness of long nights. Flushed red cheeks, walking down tree-lined paths with grey clouds overhead. Boughs of evergreen trees, decorations of red berries and red cardinals. Hiding out the cold baking at home with friends, filling the house with warm yellow-browns.

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the earth wrote stories of you.

your hand in mine, our lips together, my hands on your waist, sliding down your thighs in reverent awe, breath passing between us full of love and lust and hope and forever.

you were written for me, and i'll hold you tightly in gratitude.