Grad Student, new mom, former idiot, a 31 year old narcissist in the mental health counseling field somewhere in Dallas, TX.
Most importantly:
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Nobody can save you but yourself — And you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning — this is it.
Charles Bukowski (via espenlaub)
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski (via anaandthelatenightrambling)
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can’t just sit their and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things.
Stephen Chbosky (via venula)
For keith.
Seriously, love my aunt. (Taken with instagram)
Sitting alone in the garage, with cigarettes, southern comfort & Pepsi in complete silence, except for the typical Friday night sirens. This quiet night is like heaven.
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.
Rumi
(Source: fuckyeahrumi)
I’ll take crazy over stupid any day.
Joss Whedon (via myquotelibrary)
How you liking that box? Little Layla Stayley?
Loss & the aftermath of
An old friend, whom I used to see/date from time to time when I was in high school many moons ago passed away yesterday, by taking his own life. I’m going to share a post with you all because I’d like you to see some interesting reactions this received today.
