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Someone posted this Mountain Goats song I’ve never heard before on my wall today, so I think I’m good on the birthday presents front.
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Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness , dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal’s black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.
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Not to get all new agey on you guys, but if you need proof that the difficult and frustrating process of meditation is doing something productive, try stretching or doing yoga before and after you meditate. I stretched a bit this morning and I was super inflexible and it was really hard. I was feeling anxious and depressed this afternoon so I meditated for about twenty minutes. I tried stretching afterwards and I was at least twice as flexible as I was earlier today. The movements had given me so much resistance and had hurt so much this morning were suddenly easy and painless. It’s astonishing to realize how closely our minds and bodies are connected and how easy it can be to release the stress that constantly plagues us if we just try.
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I can call Flappy Bird is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.
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“Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later — the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui — these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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this seems really fucking obvious to me but it is coming up again and again recently: there is no such thing as a “good” or “bad” person. “good” people do “bad” things and “bad” people do “good” things. every human deserves compassion no matter what their crimes are. i deeply believe this and i feel very very sad at the flat, black and white way these issues are treated online. what harm will it do the world to try to be compassionate instead of hateful?
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I want to focus overall less on myself, how good or bad I think I am, and more on feeling compassion for others, especially on the internet. I want to grasp less towards things being a certain way and allow more room to be compassionate towards any and everyone, even if I despise everything they stand for or they despise everything I stand for. I want to create more and more room for different perspectives and opinions and experiences. I don’t know if this will help or change anything. I think all I can do is change myself and keep myself from losing all hope.
I think most of us out there are having a net positive effect on the spaces we inhabit, given our circumstances and limitations. I believe in us. I believe we are trying as hard as we can to be as good as we can be, and sometimes too hard, and sometimes hurting ourselves in the process. I think it’s not just ok, but necessary to be compassionate towards ourselves as well. And I think that’s the only way we’re going to keep ourselves from total disillusionment and despair.
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the fall of mr. fifths by WHY? [lyrics]
could your anger be mapped into an interpretive dance to a triphop track? could it be bowed out on strings, or strung into a pattern for a god’s eye to bring to your alma mater’s holiday fundraiser boutique thing?
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I was like, ‘You won. Why are you posting your text message? Just chill. Take your W, and if you feel you didn’t deserve it, go get better — make better music.’ It felt cheap. It didn’t feel genuine. Why do that? Why feel guilt? You think those guys would pay homage to you if they won?… This is how the world works: He made a brand of music that appealed to more people than me, Hov, Kanye and Kendrick. Whether people wanna say it’s racial, or whether it’s just the fact that he tapped into something we can’t tap into. That’s just how the cards fall. Own your shit.
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