We cannot enjoy life if we spend our time and energy worrying about what happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow. If we’re afraid all the time, we miss out on the wonderful fact that we’re alive and can be happy right now. Thich Nhat Hanh (via cavum)

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I’m so awake filled with inspiration and imagination right now that I think I’m going to write a nice, long story, right now at 2:30 in the morning

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Irony

It’s a scary thought to think about how vulnerable we are, and how fragile our lives are, to the point where any given day can be the last day for anyone. I can’t begin to fathom and comprehend the reality that so many people are brought into this world only to be taken away from it so soon, and sometimes, so tragically. The fact that it’s not everybody’s journey to live as long as their body will biologically allow them to live, but rather to live only as long as their fate allows them. Ironically, some of us live just to die and one morning we could wake up just like we do every other day we’ve gratefully managed to live through, not knowing if our fate ends here and that final day could be today. The scariest part about it all is that each individual’s fate is so vulnerable that it can be determined by people we might not even know exist. The reckless and careless decisions of other individuals, that are sometimes even purposeful, can end anyone’s journey no matter how far along they are. How scary it is that our lives are truthfully in the hands of everybody. What a way to exist.

With this said, my heart-filled thoughts and feelings go out to the mass shooting that occurred in Connecticut today, in addition to the lives of the young and the old that have ever been taken away especially tragically, suddenly, and unwillingly; and to all of the lives that have been taken away, period. 

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Honestly guys don’t have it easier than girls

however they’re lucky to not have a period

yet not so lucky to have to deal with us on ours

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Man I have the weirdest dreams

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