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//Sarcastic and capricious thrill-seeker with a penchant for written prose. I'm a sucker for nice smiles, old souls & quick wit.
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“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us…then there wouldn’t be so much fuss about love in the first place.”
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I feel like people are like this, but they don’t know that pieces they feel are broken can be filled with treasures, too
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Alvaro Sanchez-Montanes - Indoor Desert (2010)
“By the end of World War I, diamond mines in Kolmanskuppe, a site in the Namib Desert, ceased...
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“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...”
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting. My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris. […]
I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”
-Roger Ebert, “Life Itself: A Memoir”
She looks nice. She looks like she’d be an interesting person, that I’d find her interesting. Maybe she’s an artist or a musician, the creative type with flair that other girls simply don’t have.
Maybe she’s just like me.
Maybe she’s lonely too.
Maybe I have the courage to talk to her, and through some measure of miracle, she talks back and it’s not awkward and she likes me. Maybe we’d take the bus together and the conversation flows and the journey ends too soon. Maybe I’d ask to see her again and she blushes and says yes. Maybe it’s beautiful and straight away I realize that she’s what I’ve been looking for for so long. Maybe we hold hands in public and feel wrong when our fingers aren’t intertwined. Maybe I can stand sort of shopping, but only with her.
Maybe we intend to start slow but things are just so damn perfect we can’t help but take it quick. Maybe we’ll live together and each day is like a new adventure all over again and every mundane task seems so fresh and full of life. Maybe she cooks for me and is content simply with the look on my face as a compliment. Maybe she waits for me at home and doesn’t get mad when I don’t call. Maybe I can look at other girls and it’s okay because she knows that I love her.
Maybe…maybe I love her.
Maybe we’ll fall in love and nothing has ever felt so right.
Maybe she can hold me on the dark days, and when I feel too scared to move and she can tell me that it’s all okay and I believe her. Maybe I can do the same for her. Maybe I’m her saviour and she needs me more than anything else. Maybe she can’t live without me. Maybe it’s perfect. Maybe she makes me feel home and safe. Maybe her smile is enough to make old pain go away.
Maybe she’s everything…just not for me.
Maybe she’s someone else’s. Maybe she tells someone else that it’s all okay. Maybe she’ll love someone else and hold someone else’s hand. Maybe I don’t have the courage to talk to her and she gets on the bus and goes away to live this other fantastic life.
Maybe she could never be mine.
Maybe I can’t live with that.
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The Times of India is running 1/4 page ads on why men should respect women.
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I spend more money on books in any given year than on clothes.
Aliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew (Drunkmaster Flex & eSenTRiK Remix)
Got this song on repeat like there’s no tomorrow.
Best Friends
Born in Africa to French wildlife photographer parents, Tippi Degré had a most unusual childhood. The young girl grew up in the African desert and developed an uncommon bond with many untamed animals including a 28-year old African elephant named Abu, a leopard nicknamed J&B, lion cubs, giraffes, an Ostrich, a mongoose, crocodiles, a baby zebra, a cheetah, giant bullfrogs, and even a snake. Africa was her home for many years and Tippi became friends with the ferocious animals and tribes people of Namibia. As a young child, the French girl said, “I don’t have friends here. Because I never see children. So the animals are my friends.”
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Can we sit down for a cup of coffee and talk about why you didn’t like your English teacher your Sophomore year of high school? Or maybe why you did like your Chemistry teacher?
And can you tell me about the way the crunching of leaves made you feel right before your 5th birthday? Let’s talk about the first time you ever decided that apple pie was your favorite kind of pie. Describe your favorite person without adjectives. And then tell me all of the kinds of different drinks you’ve ever ordered at Starbucks and have you ever asked for something that wasn’t on the menu? Would you rather fall asleep to the sound of rain or wake up to it? How do you talk to 3 AM, with tenderness or contempt?
I want to know everything about you— mostly the things that other people wouldn’t think to ask. Someday I will know so much about you, I don’t know if it will be nearly enough, and I don’t know if you’ll want to tell me. But I hope it is, and I hope you will.
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WANT.
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Dibs big side
Now if only we could agree on the blanket..
