January 2010
29 posts
funeral:
Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by the positive illusions of illusory superiority, the illusion of control and optimism bias. It must be understood that this refers specifically to people with borderline or moderate depression — while normal people see things in too...
“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow,...”
– Lorrie Moore, Birds of America (via robot-heart) (via libraryland) (via booklover)
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via robot-heart) (via libraryland) (via booklover)
waking life
“On really romantic nights of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.”
“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
– George Carlin (via alaskamiller)
wow.
(via nedhepburn)
how to:
get a mysterious body/head ache, blisters on your feet, bruise easily, and somehow lose a few pounds along the way: sleep all day, stay up all night, wear high heels on a street paved by rocks, eat nothing but a greasy taco every now and then when hunger is intolerable, and drink nothing but straight tequila with a slice of lime and some salt to the side. I’ve been spending a lot of time...
