worldfrombelow:
I’ve been writing in this journal everyday since June 18th, 2011. I started it right after finishing The Perks of Being A Wallflower (because after reading that book, who doesn’t want to start writing shit down?). Like Wallflower, it didn’t really have a focus, just random thoughts and observations.
Now I’ve got 4 blank pages left, and it’s almost the end of the year. At the end, I’m going to go through and reread the whole thing, sort through all the bullshit, and find the moments that really meant something to me. I’m going to remember the characteristics of those moments, then go out and buy another blank journal for next year. Every year, I’m going to try to increase the number of moments that mean something to me. Maybe I’ll post some of them here.
this is a picture of an incredible woman. you can see her in upcoming film the market as “kid buying a shitload of condoms and weed.”
a solution!
christina’s world remains my favorite painting at moma, maybe even more so because it’s stuck on the wall of a short and narrow walkway.
the next thing i post here will send that andrew wyeth painting to the second page and thinking about that reality is beginning to make me
so…
unbearably…
sad.
cracked:
benwarheit:
I’m Ben Warheit
Science.
i’ve long suspected this.
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harmlessbalderdash:
really feeling this one today.
"People get really irritated by mental illness. ‘Just fucking get it together! Suck it up, man!’ I had a breakdown, and a spiritual friend came to visit me in the psych ward. And they said, ‘You need to get out of here. Because this is the story you’re telling yourself. You know, Patch Adams has this great work-group camp where you can learn how to really celebrate life.’ It’s something people are so powerless over, and so often they want to make it your fault. It’s nobody fault. I started thinking of suicide when I was 10 years old—I can’t believe that that’s somebody’s fault. Like, ‘Oh, you’re just an attention getter.’ Mental illness isn’t seen as an illness, it’s seen as a choice…. I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. ‘Well, apparently Jeff has cancer. Uh,
I have cancer. We all have cancer. You go to chemotherapy you get it taken care of, am I right? You get back to work.’ Or: ‘I was dating this chick, and three months in, she tells me that she wears glasses, and she’s been wearing contact lenses all this time. She needs help seeing. I was like, listen, I’m not into all that Western medicine shit. If you want to see, then work at it. Figure out how not to be so myopic. You know?’"
— Maria Bamford (via yeshairy)
(via cesaire)
