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It’s easy to feel uncared for when people aren’t able to communicate and connect with you in the way you need. And it’s so hard not to internalize that silence as a reflection on your worth. But the truth is that the way other people operate is not about you. Most people are so caught up in their own responsibilities, struggles, and anxiety that the thought of asking someone else how they’re doing doesn’t even cross their mind. They aren’t inherently bad or uncaring — they’re just busy and self-focused. And that’s okay. It’s not evidence of some fundamental failing on your part. It doesn’t make you unloveable or invisible. It just means that those people aren’t very good at looking beyond their own world. But the fact that you are — that despite the darkness you feel, you have the ability to share your love and light with others — is a strength. Your work isn’t to change who you are; it’s to find people who are able to give you the connection you need. Because despite what you feel, you are not too much. You are not too sensitive or too needy. You are thoughtful and empathetic. You are compassionate and kind. And with or without anyone’s acknowledgment or affection, you are enough.

Daniell Koepke (via internal-acceptance-movement)

I’ll reblog this every single time.

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Found poetry.

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Polar stratospheric clouds or PSCs, also known as nacreous clouds, are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (49,000–82,000 ft). They are best observed during civil twilight when the sun is between 1 and 6 degrees below the horizon as well as in winter and in more northerly latitudes. They are implicated in the formation of ozone holes. The effects on ozone depletion arise because they support chemical reactions that produce active chlorine which catalyzes ozone destruction, and also because they remove gaseous nitric acid, perturbing nitrogen and chlorine cycles in a way which increases ozone destruction.

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•ENFP With A New Crush•

@laryzininha hope you enjoy and I hope your crush likes you back lol.

You can send me requests of mbti types and/or styles of aesthetics you want to see👉🏻👉🏻

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“Enthusiastic, idealistic, and creative. Able to do almost anything that interests them. Great people skills. Need to live life in accordance with their inner values. Excited by new ideas, but bored with details. Open-minded and flexible, with a broad range of interests and abilities.”

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It hasn’t gotten any better since then, either. 

a conversation with a white man

I just had a 30 year old objectively attractive, affable, gay, southern “white” man (although he insisted that he wasn’t white, but “greek”) state:

Black people in Savannah are like Hispanic people to ya’ll.

This piqued my interest greatly…so, of course, I had to delve into it.  In his (paraphrased) words:

Black people in Savannah are, well, ghetto.  They’re lazy, have poor moral character…at worst, they’re criminal.  And they hate white people; they have no problem fucking you up if you’re white and look scared of them.  Fortunately, they never messed with me because I would have fucked one of them up.

When asked about what he thought the difference was being white and black, at least in Savannah, I got the following response:

I can’t speak for all white people, but I was raised in a religious home that taught me real values.  I learned how to speak several languages, and got to travel to other countries – that’s not a value that a black person is gonna get in Savannah.  They’re raised to not want to work, to be lazy, and just live off of the government.  Their culture tells them that the more babies they make, the more money the government will give to them.

And on the change that are happening in America?

White is becoming the new minority.  Blacks and hispanics already outnumber whites, and it’s only a matter of time before whites are clearly in the minority.  Fortunately I had a lot of privilege growing up because my family had a lot of money, but many of my white friends just didn’t have anything – and the lazy black guy who doesn’t give a shit got a job that should’ve gone to them.

Eventually I couldn’t simply keep asking questions, I had to grill him…I asked, so, you think white people are superior to black people?  Even if just in Savannah.

I mean, it sounds really harsh when you put it like that.  I wouldn’t say that.

And yet, you’ve said absolutely nothing positive about being African-American, or at least being African American in Savannah.

Well, I guess you’re right…I mean, it sounds really harsh, but I guess we really are superior.

And how do we go about fixing the “problem”?

There’s really no way.  I mean, the only way I can think of is just to…eliminate them.  It’s part of their culture, and they’re trained from an early age how to use the system and manipulate the government and not work at all.  And the only way you could possibly change that is just to eliminate all of them, and start from scratch.

THIS IS A PERSON ALIVE IN WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE YEAR 2011.  THIS IS NOT A TEST.  THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING AND IS REAL LIFE, NOT A SCARY CHARACTER WE FLIP BY ON FOX NEWS.

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I celebrated Drew’s birthday, the first day of Pride Month, and Wear Orange Day on June 1st. 

Today I wore orange for Drew, the 49 taken at Pulse, and for any other person whose life has ended too soon due to senseless and preventable gun violence. #SurvivorStrong

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In 20 years, when my daughter asks me who my first love was, I’ll think of you. I will think of nights spent talking until the sun came up. I will think of the way your smile lit up my heart. I will think of the lessons you taught me, both before and after your broke my heart. And I will look down at my daughter and tell her your name, I’ll tell her how much I loved you, how dangerous it is to love somebody that much, how I had to learn to put myself back together again once you left. But I’ll also tell her that none of it matters as much as it did then, I’ll tell her that it doesn’t hurt the way it used to, I’ll tell her that it’s important to put your heart on the line even if it means breaking it somewhere along the way. And I’ll tell her that you taught me one of the most important lessons you can ever learn: that you deserve someone who knows how to love you.

excerpt from a book i’ll never write #117 (via a-laa-mode)

Right in the feels.

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Mountain View by Justin Xu

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This just tickled my brain in all the right ways. 

Кирилл Уютнов

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my therapist says make friends with your monsters, josé olivarez

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Good Night | Lauri Lohi

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these summer nights

by Denny Bitte