“I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself.”— Jonathan Carroll
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“I hope you fall in love with someone who never stops choosing you and I hope you feel at home when you look at them.”—
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how other countries celebrate their national day: OUR COUNTRY IS THE GREATEST! LONG LIVE OUR COUNTRY! PARTY!
how Germans celebrate their national day: oh, today is Tag der Deutschen Einheit? I completely forgot. Well, crap, all the shops are closed now. Whatever.
I will never stop repeating this story:
At the 25th anniversary of The fall of the Berlin wall, there was a ceremony at the Brandenburger Tor. People were lined up where the wall used to divide the city. They had illuminated balloons that they released one after the otther so the wall symbolically disappeared into the sky. Accompanying this was a cellist and a violinist playing a beautiful but understated insteumental version of the German national anthem.
And the tv commentators went: “Hmmmm, isn’t this maybe a little too much pathos?”
Welcome to Germany XD
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the rise of ‘aesthetics’ as a common way to describe literally every facet of yourself is like the most destructive thing I’ve seen on social media this shit is crazy. it is the most beauty obsessed thing in such a subtle and evil way…. it goes down to the books you read the chicness of your clutter the music you listen to how you decorate your water bottle like literally every single thing you do is scrutinized and defined into egirl or cottagecore or dark academia or vapor wave or baddie or whatever and it just forces you to quantify yourself and criticize every thing you do without break ….. am I sitting down in an effortlessly cute way? Is the mess on my bedside table whimsical? Is my shampoo luxurious and glamorous? And it’s all just a way to sell shit and profit off of your insecurity!!!!!! You watch yourself from an outside perspective, making sure you’re not just beautiful but you fit exactly into whatever box you strive to belong to, and it leaves no room for mistakes!!!! You can’t be embarrassing or cringey or gross or ugly unless it’s in an ironic way that fulfills a meta identity that is also quantifiable. Everybody has a uniform now that they’re trying to fit into. If you take care of plants you’re cottagecore if you play video games and like pastels you’re an e girl if you like sweaters and reading (classic white people books only!!!) then you’re dark academia you’re tailoring every single aspect of yourself and isn’t it tiring????? Isn’t procuring yourself tiring????? I’m going to rip a phone book in half
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i’m attracted to mindsets.. i need to see how you think cause looks ain’t enough.
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“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”—
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‘ur quiet’ i am gatekeeping my personality from u
“I am not afraid of losing people because I lost a lot already.”— Unknown
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