hi hello » archita. 22 years || be kind to your awkward self.
“What is it that the child has to teach?
The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.
And the child is right.”
— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’”
–Barbara Alice Mann
anyway........literally love is stored in the action of making hot drinks for people. no i won’t elaborate.
“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”
- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré
GET TO KNOW ME MEME: 2/5 GROUP DYNAMICS ▸ DERRY GIRLS
You’re a Derry Girl now, James. It doesn’t matter that you’ve got that stupid accent, or that your bits are different than my bits. Because being a Derry Girl, it’s a fucking state of mind. And you’re one of us.
do you ever experience a moment of beauty and connection—like a call from a friend or the way soup your brother made you smells or the way you glimpsed the face of god when you heard a good song 20 times in a row one dark early morning or the way you see traces of dead loved ones in yourself the older you get—and think, “hey. maybe I can survive on moments like this forever. maybe i don’t need to express myself publically just because that’s the norm; maybe private moments of beauty are still enough, more enough than sharing everything or being understood or the idea of being accepted… maybe the loneliness of being has always been meant to be felt in conjunction with experiencing beauty… maybe nothing in between birth and death is real except revelatory experiences like this.” and then you have a sense of clarity, just for a bit, before it fades as normal habits take over… well, I think anything that you think or instinctively know during moments like that is the closest thing to clarity / understanding we all get to have. keep these moments close and don’t forget.
f you my child is completely fine
your child is crying as she is thinking about the great burden peter pevensie had to carry and had to lead an army, watch his siblings get into danger, leave his parents behind without knowing what might happen to them, led a country, be a king with the titles ‘high king’ and ‘magnificent’ at the age of 13, and then when a talking lion decied that he learned his lesson, he had to go back to his world and be a child again and adjust there but failed because everything became literally different and then he had to go back because the same fking lion decided he should learn more and he fought a duel with a king older and stronger than him, risked his life, watched his friends die, learnt his former friends were gone, couldn’t be the king again and had to say goodbye to this magical world because the lion was like ‘okay that’s it now he learnt this time’ and then boom he died at the age of 22
