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I love ornate ear cuffs.

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:48:23 -0400

I love ornate ear cuffs.

jaman150 replied to your post: To run now and loaf later… run now and loaf later!! I did it! I...

Wed, 30 May 2012 19:30:24 -0400

jaman150 replied to your post: To run now and loaf later…

run now and loaf later!!

I did it! I ran ran ran until I nearly coughed up a lung.

I hate sit ups! Ugh, more than I hate other exercises (actually, I don’t think there are any...

Wed, 30 May 2012 18:56:31 -0400

I hate sit ups! Ugh, more than I hate other exercises (actually, I don’t think there are any others I hate). I hate them, because they never make you tired enough that you have a real excuse to stop, but they still hurt so much.

lmao

Wed, 30 May 2012 18:53:26 -0400

lmao

I was musing today about how efficiently people seem to run their lives without God. Really, I was...

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:01:39 -0400

I was musing today about how efficiently people seem to run their lives without God.

Really, I was thinking about one of my friends and how…different he is from most of the other people I went to school with. It’s not that he doesn’t believe in God, but it’s almost like he doesn’t. He is entirely self possessed (I love that word): he sees his success or failure as entirely based upon his own efforts. And he acts accordingly…and things work out just as he plans for them to. It’s a quality I really admire about him, because I can be soooo lazy. And it’s not just him: everything always seems to work out for most other people outside the SDA circle. Though I’m sure there are many different facets of this phenomenon, I find myself honing in on one particular thing. I began to wonder if people outside the Church were so obviously successful because of their dependence on nothing else but their own will. There is a balance, I know, but do we depend too much on God to fix the messes wrought of our own incompetence? or lack of ambition? or whatever else?

Sometimes, I think in professing God to be the answer to any and all problems, we forget to take responsibility, you know? It’s comforting to not study for a test and then count of God to deliver us from our failure to prepare (this is the life I live, really!). It’s easy to throw our hands up and say, ‘Let his will be done!’. But it’s supposed to be the opposite, because what kind of message does that sort of slackerdome send? What does that say about the God I claim to serve?

There is a balance between the mindset that breeds hard work and belief, I know. I guess I’m just too lazy to consistently establish that balance.

To run now and loaf later...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:28:27 -0400

…or run later and loaf now?

That is the question!

Artist vs. Slacker/Scenester/Hipster?

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:24:47 -0400

One of my friends is very beautiful. All around. She is one of the most beautiful little people I know. She has a gentle, but indomitable spirit.

I have come to realize that one of the things I love most about her is how original she is. She is truly an artist, but not in the hipster, ‘I just like to be seen’ sense of the word (you know, the type that somehow never quite have the time to produce any actual art, but just ‘look’ like artists).

She works really hard on her craft, goes to school for it, in fact and most of what she does is really awesome. She puts herself out there, creates such beautiful work, but still has this respect for God that I’ve really come to admire. Because sometimes it seems like people take art out of context: that they assume being an artist entails constant defiance and questioning of God. Giving him the colorful middle finger, if you will. And it doesn’t have to be one way or the other really, you can have both. You can have both creativity and God. Truthfully, they go hand in hand, but people don’t like to hear that? Or they forget? I don’t know.

She knows who she is. And I can’t help but find that pretty impressive, honestly. Her style isn’t just a fad or a phase or part of some attempt to be part of a scene.

Photo

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:14:37 -0400

I would edit that last part to profess God to be the only...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:09:51 -0400

I would edit that last part to profess God to be the only solution. But either way, these are pretty much my sentiments. *shrug*

“There will be flaws wherever there are humans.”

lunaskywalker: A tattoo of an oxytocin molecule, the hormone...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:00:22 -0400

lunaskywalker:

A tattoo of an oxytocin molecule, the hormone that makes one fall in love.

Out of all the paranoid parrot memes, this is the only one I...

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:55:16 -0400

Out of all the paranoid parrot memes, this is the only one I haven’t actually done myself lolz. Well, actually…*ponders*

Photo

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:52:44 -0400

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:48:52 -0400

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

- Charles Bukowski (via aquaticwonder)

21: When I used to leave his house, I'd feel borrowed.

Wed, 30 May 2012 13:34:33 -0400

21: When I used to leave his house, I'd feel borrowed.:

blueinkdisciple:

And not the kind of borrowed that’s cared for more than his personally owned things. I’d almost feel like I was given back to myself with a couple pulled strings and burns I know I hadn’t left my own house with.

But, to be worn like something expensive… To be utilized and to cling to his body…

Snow always looks so sad…tortured, even? Like somehow...

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:51:45 -0400

Snow always looks so sad…tortured, even? Like somehow he’s always viewing his worst nightmare.

thetangential: Best/Realest Tweets of the Week, 5/20-5/26/12

Mon, 28 May 2012 01:24:24 -0400

thetangential:

Best/Realest Tweets of the Week, 5/20-5/26/12

gunmetalskies: Click for full size

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:37:08 -0400

gunmetalskies:

Click for full size

suicideblonde: Chloe Moretz at Calvin Klein’s ‘Infinite Loop’...

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:15:43 -0400

suicideblonde:

Chloe Moretz at Calvin Klein’s ‘Infinite Loop’ exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, May 24th

I think what’s so interesting (amazing?) about Chloe Moretz is that she’s managed to escape the child star label so easily. She’s like a real actress is adult movies, instead of just that girl you see in Spy Kids Infinity. Or in Nickolodeon specials.

The Four Year Graduate Myth

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:36:00 -0400

I’ve come to notice that I get a bit ticked off when people praise you for attaining four-year graduate status (versus just praising you for graduate status period). Not that I’m not proud of myself, or my peers, who managed to make it out ‘on time’, but there’s something just so…ignorant (condescending even) about the way people pat you on the back for this.

The first thing that I find annoying about it, is that most older people who do this are people who seemed to never have a dream or free thought in their entire life. They come from a generation that snottily sticks to the status quo like it’s the last piece of drift wood amidst the ruins of the Titanic. Dramatic, I know, but I find it a pretty appropriate parallel. These old fogies don’t realize that the one reason a lot of people don’t rush to get out of college is that they don’t want to be like them: disappointed/ing, discontent, and overall dissatisfied with their store-brand lives. Hence, the extended deliberation of and changing of majors, and the moments where one even contemplates dropping out completely. Now and then, you’ll find someone whose dreams and ambitions align with college…but this is not always the case. Call me a whiner, but college is kinda a hard thing to hack if you’re not entirely sure you want to do it in the first place. That’s anything really.

The second thing: college doesn’t mean a damn thing anymore. I wish people would get with the times. What I wish more is that people didn’t lie to me as a child and tell me all I had to do was go to college in order to be successful. I am still very bitter about that! College is absolutely nothing but a place to network and/or prepare you for post graduate education of some sort. It does little it seems to determine how successful you’ll become. All the grunt work is on you…college doesn’t do that. So what’s the rush really? (unless we’re talking finances, then by all means sweep through college like a bat out of hell and pay off those loans!) Like, do you have any idea how many people who’ve gotten their bachelors are doing minimum wage bullshit they didn’t even go to school for? What’s a college degree anymore, really? Especially since it communicates basically the same thing, whether it was attained in four, five, or even six years: that you went to college. College can’t supply you with ambition.

Yea, there’s actually a difference between that guy who seems content to be the campus supplier and resident party promoter the rest of his life, and the dude who switched from biology to communications and now has an extra year to show for it. There’s a big difference. But for some strange reason these two figures are superimposable images in the minds of most older people. I hate that. It’s a pissening sentiment to hear.

I wonder if this generation will become like the previous? If we’ll forget how hard it was to stay motivated or how dismal the entire process of exploring our interests seemed, and become the sort of people who stick their nose up at what we deem overly adventurous youth.

"We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:01:25 -0400

“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.””

- (On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)

Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com (via liquidiousfleshbag)

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