#life is for living

[dragonwithagirltatto]

Absolutely yes. Also, I enjoy making other peoples lives more interesting. Doing and wearing weird things in public. Speaking loudly about things that make people double take. I have free will and I intend to use it. I want to be the reason someone goes home to their wife and says,”you’ll never guess what happened at the store today..” I was raving about how I love soggy cereal as i walked through a walmart today, two days ago I chased my sister(we’re adults) down the isle at a store saying “ricky when i catch you ricky!”, I frequently just start doing the Macarena when I don’t feel like standing still(sometimes people join in), sometimes when i get somewhere and am waiting for a friend i sit on top of my car rather than in it. The more you do it the easier it gets and by gods its fun. You have free will! Use it! Be not confined by social norms!

a good way to inspire yourself to do more is to see yourself as the wacky sitcom B plot character in your friends lives, "wouldnt it be funny to tell the friends in my phone about it." has gotten me to do anything from going to a festival (excelent) to wild camping (it went badly) (coastguard called) to trying to get the train to stonehenge (stonehenge costs money so i ended up just getting lunch in sailsbury, it was okay.) i bought a bicycle today and 20% of my reasoning was "itd be funny to surprise my roommate by coming home with a whole bike." . life is for living. and baby i live for the bit.

[avdiobliss]

The entire album parachutes (no I’m never gonna shut up about this) is perfect for angst. It tells a whole story through the album. (THESE ARE MY INTERPRETATIONS OF THE LYRICS IF YOU FEEL DIFFERENTLY THATS OKAY!!)

1. Don’t panic just makes me sob, it’s the beginning and perfectly represents the feelings in a new relationship, we’ve fought for so much but it’s okay because the world is beautiful now.

2. Shiver - I’m beginning to catch proper feelings but are you? Am I really getting everything back?! “You pay me no attention” even though my heart is set on you. I will be by your side forever, even if you see straight through me. You need me to change? I will.

3. Spies - I’m so scared. There’s misfortune around every corner just waiting to end us. (Genuinely i cannot think of any romantic thing behind this song i did research and people are saying it’s about war… help me out coldplay fans🧍‍♂️)

4. Sparks - You’re gone now. I was too much. I’m sorry. Everything I am is yours. I will always be here. I saw those feelings. But you don’t return them anymore.

5. Yellow - The love song where everything revolves around your partner. It was all for you. Everything I have ever done.

6. Trouble - I didn’t mean to make you feel this way. Everything is jumbled up. I never meant for it to get this far. I’m sorry for loving you. I’m sorry for causing you so much trouble.

7. Parachutes - I understand. It’s over. I will always love you, no matter how difficult it is to see. I will always wait for you.

8. High Speed - I’ve been living inside this world where nothing matters but you, and now it’s too late. Can anybody help me get out of here? If I believe in you I can get out of here. Please help.

9. We Never Change - We do never change. It’s always you and me. I just want simplicity, but that will never happen with you. It will never be that easy. I want to be with you, but I know that will never happen, no matter how many tries we have.

10. Everything’s Not Lost - I still love you but I need to move on. If you need me, I will be here. I have so much to deal with, and yet you are first. No matter what I am sorting through, no matter what demons I am dealing with, if you feel neglected, I will be there

11. Bonus Track: Life Is For Living - I fucked up in the end. I know. And I’m so sorry. I don’t want to leave this life without you.

[sprout-senior]

you know your frontal lobe is developing when you stop being embarrassed to admit you’re a furry

[bucardi]

[loveisonlyforthebrave8]

what do you do when you're unemployed, broke, and depressed? you book a last minute flight to thailand for 2 weeks that you *definitely* can't afford.

[luvinpassing]

was attempting hide from God but he found me in middle of the grocery store and grabbed me by the shoulders and yelled “ITS OKAY TO BE ALIVE AS YOU ARE!!! STOP BEING SORRY FOR LIVING!!!!”

[sohannabarberaesque]

"Life is either an adventure or nothing."

--the motto of Sherry Manufacturing Co., manufacturer of tourist-trap souvenir T-shirts

Which could also be something of a mantra among much of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera ... especially when you have Snagglepuss and Huckleberry Hound on the road in their motorhome for the former's weekly postcards ... Peter Potamus and his intrepid(?!) Magic Divers, not to mention the Three Wolves and the Divin' Wolf Pups ... or even the Hair Bear Bunch out on the road during bear mating season, letting their inner juvenile sexual curiosity loose.

That's just for starters--can you imagine other likely possibilities Hanna-Barberian in this vein?

[blabbershere]

I want to see, real, living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as an illusion. I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

- The Fountainhead // Ayn Rand

[runawaymindofasadboy]

"Your 20s are a Petri dish to make your mistakes" - Cole Sprouse (Diary of a CEO) and associated thoughts

Your 20s are meant to be a Petri dish for your mistakes to learn from in later life. So make them and you'll never truly regret a mistake you made, because without the mistakes you wouldn't be who you are are what you have experienced. Don't take a second to think about the you that didn't make those mistakes, because that person isn't the you that has come to pass.

Who you are, right here, right now, whatever you're going through, is categorically the best and worst of you that will ever be right now. So take hold of it, fuck it up, enrich it, do anything that is truly you doing something, and every time you do that, you gain an extra piece of yourself that can never be taken away.

Life is for living, not for thinking away.

[thisismenow3]

I needed this today. A reminder of what I’m actually striving for, not the simplistic game capitalism has us all pitching to each other about. I hope this picks y’all up too.

BILL WATTERSON ‘A cartoonist’s advice’

[maudiemoods]

If life is a never ending loop of dirty dishes and laundry then that means life is a never ending loop of home cooked meals and comfy clean clothes

[sca-nerd]

My friends who have never experienced flooding, and who are about to deal with it from this storm, please remember:

1. NO. YOU CANNOT MAKE IT THROUGH THAT WATER ON THE ROAD. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'RE DRIVING. TURN. AROUND.

2. DO NOT GO WADING THROUGH THE WATER. EVEN IF YOU JUST WANT TO SEE HOW DEEP IT IS. THAT. WATER. IS. CONTAMINATED.

3. IT IS CALLED FLASH FLOODING FOR A REASON. THE WATER RISES AND SURGES IN A FLASH. STAY. HOME.

4. If you're at risk of flooding, raise up any of your belongings now. Put the legs of tall things in buckets. Know where your important documents are.

5. Stay safe.

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[charbroiledchicken]

"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

[heywriters]

btw the majority of your life will be lived as a adult. yeah i don't make the rules. go have fun in your 40s or 70s or whatever. no one expects you to accomplish everything at 17 or 27. you've got time and in the meantime get some life experience, it will pay off