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we all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times

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It’s easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person who you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those lovable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. This is because the individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really exist. The person is real, and the feelings are real—but you create the context. And context is everything. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.

— Chuck Klosterman
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Sunday afternoon tea party

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Sunday afternoon tea party

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Ad for a skin-whitening pill (via Feministing).

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Ad for a skin-whitening pill (via Feministing).

A map is more unreal than where you’ve beenOr how you...

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:20:12 -0800

A map is more unreal than where you’ve been
Or how you feel
And it’s impossible to tell
How important someone was
And what you might have missed out on
And how he might have changed it all
And how you might have changed it all for him

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the invitation

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it doesn’t interest me what you do for a living
i want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing

it doesn’t interest me how old you are
i want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dreams
for the adventure of being alive

it doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon…
i want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain

i want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it

i want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human

it doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true
i want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself

if you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul
if you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy

i want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day
and if you can source your own life
from its presence

i want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon

yes.

—Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Corn chips

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Corn chips

things on tuesday, september second

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:49:00 -0700

THINGS I LOVE:

september in berkeley!
indian summer!
the start of a new semester!
school! classes!
my earliest class starting at noon
seeing my vietnamese teacher on a daily basis again
friendly familiar faces
kicking it with the bfc
dwinelle dates
chicken and waffles
road trips
three-day weekends
barbecue holidays (memorial, independence, labor)
hiding in closets and climbing out of windows <3

THINGS I LOATHE:

when my dog goes through the trash and eats everything
when my dog poops out cling wrap and other unidentifiable things
anxiety regarding the future
having class five days a week
lack of income
stupid drunk girls who start fights!
helen being halfway around the world
the prospect of mccain being president

THE SLOW FADE OF LOVErilo kiley - a man/me/then jim

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:26:44 -0700

THE SLOW FADE OF LOVE
rilo kiley - a man/me/then jim

Have you ever seen anything so cute in your life?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:53:36 -0700

Have you ever seen anything so cute in your life?

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