June 2012
May 2012
Ω: You're still growing up, even into your 30's. →
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Nobody tells you that. It’s like as soon as you hit the big 18 people no longer say you’re still growing up. They make it out as if as soon as you’re done with college a couple years later there’s no more growing up to do. You’re at max capacity. But you know, we’re not. We are by far not even close to hitting the end of trying to grow up and we need to hear that now more than we ever did when we were kids.
I don’t know why we have this notion in our heads that as soon as you get out of college you need to get your shit together. As if this magical fairy is going to pop out and give us adulthood. When we don’t get it and we crawl back to our parents house and work part-time jobs that aren’t related to our college degree to pay off said college degree we feel like failures. Not only that, nobody is there to encourage you. You’re just looked at as this giant lame ass who isn’t doing nothing in your adult life when every day you’re busting your balls trying to make ends meet and still try to maintain being happy with your short comings. Your parents, friends, the world acts like there’s nothing more you can do. You’re an adult, you don’t have the job that you want, you’re in debt, you’re living in your parents basement, you suck as an adult, have a nice life its not going to get better.
That’s not the case. You’re not an adult, you’re STILL growing up figuring out shit and that’s okay. Most of us didn’t get that magical fairy either to grant us adulthood and we’re fucking up and growing up right along with you. I have no idea what the hell I’m doing and I’m pretty sure a lot of people reading this also have no idea what the hell they’re doing. We’re in this together. Some people can do the growing up right away, and some of us can’t. Some of us don’t know what we want. We’re allowed to change our minds and we’re allowed to be brand new as many times as we feel. There’s no cut off age to growing up. People just keep trying to scare us into adulthood and its gets stressful when you feel like you’re the only person not doing it right. But believe me, you’re not the only one and you can take your time figuring it out. Shit, I still haven’t figured it out.
We’re still growing my friend, and that’s okay. We’re okay. You’re okay.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
—Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
Disarm
Ben Rector
So in love with this song.
Munich - Heavy Thunder Storm
Today there was a thunderstorm with a quite quick succession of lightning and thunder. But listen for yourself. It was like this for at least an hour. This is 10 minutes of it.
Lost and Found
Katie Herzig
Lost and Found | Katie Herzig
think about how lucky we are to live at the same time as kanye west
boyfriend?
Does my boyfriend pillow count?
pretty.
Well thank ya, kind sir :)
“You can’t travel through time, but you can send your thoughts and hopes into the future to camp out and wait for you to arrive there, where you’ll meet up and hug and decide that everything is alright again.”
—John Mayer (via mayerology)
“Life seemed to be filled with things that were just like the ghost orchid - wonderful to imagine and easy to fall in love with, but a little fantastic, and fleeting, and out of reach.”
—Susan Orlean (via symbiosis)
“I have so much of you in my heart.”
—John Keats to Fanny Brawne, 10 July 1819 (via theballaddove)
“The real struggle…is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for her life to begin.”
—Caroline Knapp (via ignitelight)
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (via beautiful-ambition)
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.
But that’s all.” —A daily struggle but a good reminder.
[Dear Sugar, The Rumpus (via shana-elmsford; sararenee)]
(via happyhumanramblings)
