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thoughts and experiences of a twenty year old calamansi fairy

It would be nice to

run

into the quiet abyss

and scream

"I don’t have any allegiance to an organized religion; I have an allegiance to the gifts that I find for myself in those religions… I’d rather be non-denominational, except for music. I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It’s the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real. But I don’t believe in a big guy with a beard on a throne, telling us that we’re bad; I certainly don’t believe in original sin. I believe in the opposite of that: you have an Eden immediately from the time you are born, but as you are conditioned by your caretakers and your surroundings, you may lose that original thing. Your task is to get back to it, to claim responsibility for your own perfection."

— Jeff Buckley

suffering is unique to each person. In depth and magnitude.

palawan, 2012

Today I honor the people who work 8 hour +++ shifts on assembly lines all over the world. Those who go unrecognized twisting the caps unto toothpaste tubes, burning the beaks off baby chicks, all day, all month, all year. They work in shit conditions for shit wages, for people to waste all the commodities they make. They have no say in the corporations they work for, and most of them can’t even afford the products they make.

Could you do the same thing for 8 hours straight everyday a year? I’d go crazy. Yet there are millions of people who endure that for minimum wage. Do we know their stories?

(this picture isn’t mine. I dont know who owns it. please educate me)

Nope. But we do know what gender Kim Kardashian’s baby is. beautiful. *applause for the human race*

Silver Lining’s Playbook

Throughout the whole movie, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence (gorgeous as she is) play characters with serious issues. Their characters are convincing as dysfunctional, erratic, and struggling personas. they seemed to have some HEAVY ISSUES to overcome. I was about to be won over until the ending came. [SPOILER] Bradley Cooper makes a lovely speech and suddenly everything is fine again. Hold on, I thought he was crazy - nope, just in love. (what?) Disorders are serious and dont just go away in a week or so. So love is supposed to fix everything in the end, and suddenly the guy raging in the beginning doesn’t seem as crazy anymore? so what fixed him? was it the pills or the romance?

I found this pretty overrated, with an unbalanced narrative.

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

— Sylvia Plath (via kittycoby)
(Source: hellanne, via carl-darl)

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There is no one can understand me truly
I do not go out and I will keep silence
Everyone is mania in general

-Goodbye, Toe

(Sunrise - somewhere between Manila and Cebu, january 2013)

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