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saya tidak mempunyai solid reason untuk mati awal, juga untuk hidup lama.

tapi saya merasa sangat lelah untuk meneruskan. rehat seperti apa yang mampu menghidupkan kita semula?

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A little ode to being slow. 🐌 I think “too slow” is oftentimes a trap that makes ourselves feel bad for where we are. Maybe going faster would be harmful and counterproductive! Maybe slow is actually the correct speed. It’s up to you to find what speed works for you! 

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“Some words stay in your head long after they’re spoken.”

— Robin Roe

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There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

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“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”

— Unknown

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Sometimes we're so busy asking Allah to fix things that we forget to thank Him for all He's done!

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Reblog this to prove your blog was made before the February 2022 tumblr resurgence

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“I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself

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Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a respondibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

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When working with an octopus…

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“After the song, the pair went to shake hands with the other players and I noted he kept hold of her hand or his hand was resting on her shoulder all the time. Then they were swinging hands and laughing and waving together. It was such a genuine connection of a few minutes between a global popstar and a little girl. “

“Summer was matched with Louis Tomlinson who had learned British Sign Language so that he could communicate with deaf fans at their concerts and  ‘meet and greets’, as well as for his work with different children’s charities such as The Eden Dora Trust and Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice.”

“Louis said he was achieving a life’s dream to play football in that stadium, but for the few minutes he was with Summer, he put her first. He considered her needs and how to make her feel special, safe, and reassured so that she could fully enjoy her moment in the spotlight living her dream.”

”Be like Louis! Even whilst living his dream he put Summer’s needs and experience first so that she had an absolute blast! Let one of your goals be to help another person enjoy their spotlight and live their dream today.”

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okay so if Louis really brought Preston back

after Preston tweeted this

I just love Louis more cause he takes care of people who have been there for him.

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the conundrum never ends

(the painting is official gaspard and lisa art from their japanese twitter)

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It’s always “why did you get in the river” and “your soaking wet” and never How was the river The river looked fun was it fun

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This is so beautiful and took a lot of patience!!! ✊

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I haven't seen anything about this on tumblr so here it is:

Tennis player Novak Djokovic flew to Australia apparently with a "medical exemption" because he won't tell anyone if he's vaxxed or not.

Upon arrival it was decided that he in fact wouldn't be let into the country after all, this was then appealed.

In the meantime Novak is staying in a guarded room at the infamous Park Hotel in Melbourne, Australia.

Why is it infamous you may ask?

Park Hotel in Carlton, Melbourne is a hotel which is currently the detention facility for refugees who are being held indefinitely by the Australian government.

They were moved there from the Manus and Nauru offshore detention centres. Within these offshore detention centres, refugees suffered physical and mental abuse by the guards under inhumane circumstances which has been criticised around the world.

The refugees have suffered for years and have no release date. The government keeps making statement that "No refugee who arrives by boat will ever be settled in Australia" which actually goes against international law.

People are angry about Novak Djokovic being held at Park Hotel but there is little consideration or compassion for the dozen or so refugees who have been detained for years with no natural light and no fresh air.