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So- story time.
I was buying a present for my brother’s birthday tomorrow (he’s turning 10) and I had my eye on this lego car. He really likes them, the difficult ones. He is a sucker for challenges. He literally memorized the whole game of Monopoly (house cost, properties, where you are going to land next turn, etc.), and we’ve got three different sets.
Anyways- the smallest lego set that would actually challenge him was only a couple [insert currency here] more than my budget, and there was nothing else that would be suitable.
Now, the manager, this guy that I’ve never seen in my life, comes up to me and asks if I need help. After looking through the whole store for something decent (apparently there’s nothing intellectually stimulating in toy stores these days) he pulled out his wallet.
I stared. He probably doesn’t have that high a salary, and he probably has a family to look after, and he could have just said ‘sorry, bye!’, but he goes up to the cashier with me and pays the rest of the amount. From his own pocket.
I don’t know this guy. I will probably never see him again. But this is most likely the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me (not including giving birth to me).
Apparently, it’s not only in stories online that people do nice things. This actually happened. To me. And although it’s small, this made me so grateful.
This is really cliched, but- my faith in humanity has been restored.
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OMG OMG OMG this is wrong! I rewatched the first episode- NOTHING! No water! There was one, I think, that took the pill with water, but all the others didn’t! Also, they would have found it at the crime scene with the lady in pink! They would have found an empty glass, and yet they didn’t! The game is on! Any theories??
I am seriously obsessed with Sherlock at the moment, so I am seeing it everywhere and-
This is so much frigging better than my dumb poison-immunity theory!
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I am seriously obsessed with Sherlock at the moment, so I am seeing it everywhere and-
This is so much frigging better than my dumb poison-immunity theory!
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Me, walking down the street: why is everyone staring at me. Don’t they have anything else to do. Why at me. Why now. Do I look that bad? Why is everyone staring at me???
Everyone, totally not staring at me: ...
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A little aesthetic I made 😆
(The picture in the middle is yours truly)
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The question is, does Gaud have vocal cords running through their brain so they can speak through their second mouth?
Assuming they have a humanoid body, that is.
*opens my 2nd set of teeth*
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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
~Francis William Bourdillon
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“And every fair from fair sometime declines. By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d.”
It is so sad, that something so beautiful and intricate is destroyed.
But in this photograph, it shall always stand tall, young and whole. A moment captured cannot be destroyed so easily.
Let us pretend that this is how the dandelion stands to this day.
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The sudden wave of intense hate for humanity has never left me...
Sudden wave of an immense love for humanity has hit me once again...
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My fifty year old dad and I had a rather disappointing conversation.
I had sent him this link, seeing as his views are rather old-fashioned (it’s about a project to promote gender equality in a class of second graders), and this conversation ensued:
Dad: I don’t think genders are completely equal. For example, males are stronger, but they are stronger genetically, it’s a known fact, whereas females have other qualities males don’t. Studies show.
Me: Sure they have studies, but do those studies take babies fresh from the womb and make them bench-press? No! It’s because of the stereotype (yes, it is just a stereotype) that these are the statistics. Because they don’t take babies fresh from the womb. They take kids, or teenagers, or adults, out of which the males- due to the stereotype/expectation that they are, indeed, the stronger gender- have already had more of a grounding in sports than the females. Simply because it complies with their gender norms.
For instance, my brother and I were the exact same weight when we were born, but even by the age of seven I was stronger than he was at that age, simply because I had a grounding in sports and he didn’t.
I think it’s really not the potential, but the training, that really biases the statistics.
Dad: But you can’t argue with the fact that boys are naturally heavier and taller. There are always exceptions, of course, but these studies do take babies straight from the womb. And you’ll find it is the same with wild animals.
Of course a heavier, taller, male gorilla would be stronger than a female gorilla. That’s just their DNA.
And because E=mc2, the heavier a person is, the stronger their kick would be.
Me: Ok, first of all, you’re taking about weight and momentum, which really have no ties to your muscles or your actual strength. Second of all, although males are generally larger than females, that has no impact on their muscles. You know that full well. Both of us spent our childhoods beating up people twice our size.
In conclusion: I think that, although naturally larger and heavier, males are not necessarily stronger than females. Both genders have the same potential regarding physical strength, and mental capacity as well [although we never did get to that]. The only reason boys are generally considered stronger than girls is that most sports, along with many other things, are considered “boy activities”, and so give boys tools that girls don’t necessarily get, at a very young age.
Please feel free to correct either of us if we said something factually incorrect. We are not scientists. And tell me what you think! What points did we not address?
No hate please. Although my dad is very old-fashioned, and we disagree about many subjects, he is still my dad. I just thought this would be an interesting example of sexism in daily life.
#mysogyny#sexism#disagreements#argument#argue with the wall#dad problems#interesting point#gender equality#gender
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I drew this on Yom HaShoa when I was eleven, and I make sure to post it, on Yom HaShoa, every year.
Please, remember.
The Holocaust happened. It was horrible. So many people, good people, died.
Please, take the time to think of them. So that they may live on in our memory.
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I am very much a contrarian.
In basically every respect.
So, as such, I like to break gender norms just because they are norms.
And yet, everyone else always seems so surprised!
Once I was biking with two male friends and my brother. A woman on the street thought this was so peculiar she asked me, at the crosswalk, whether I was aware that these are all boys, and that I was engaging in a boy activity.
Ummm... yeah? I’m not blind??
Then she decided it would be appropriate to question all of us, to see if we were all 100% ok with this.
Now, apart from being rude and rather judgmental, this also made it so awkward, that from then on, the boys put on a show of “letting me tag along”, as opposed to actually having invited me.
The whole situation is rather offensive.
I kind of wish that people could just let it go.
It doesn’t matter all that much.
If I want to ride a bike with boys, who’s to stop me? I just wish people wouldn’t judge me.
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Sonder
People like to assume that they are the main character in their own storybook. That they are the most important. It makes them feel in control. It makes them feel wanted. And It’s true- the story cannot exist without a main character.
But what if the main character in your storybook is not you? What if all you are is ‘side character no. 2, crowd scene’?
It’s humbling to realize that people have a life just as deep, just as human, as yours.
There is even a word for this- sonder.
Somebody, at some point, must have realized this first. Before anyone else even thought of this as a possibility.
Imagine, how lonely they would have been, in a world full of elitists, the only person to realize- we are not as important as we make ourselves out to be. Our lives are ingrained in a dune of sand, the wind washing them away before they’re even fully finished.
But once you notice this, the world around you becomes more beautiful. You start appreciating the depth, and the history, that lies in everything.
It’s quite a wonderful experience- sonder.
#life#realizations#deep thoughts#just a thought#random thoughts#spilled thoughts#thoughts#deep thinking#deep#venting#sorry for the long ramble#sorry for the ramble#sorry for being depressing
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The problem with routinely doing something I hate is not that I have to do it. It’s the depressing fact that, even if I do it today, I will still have to do it tomorrow.
#sad but true#life#thoughts#tired#why am i doing this#why meeeee#why me#depressing shit#depressing life#routine
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How To Write A Nice Note To Your Teacher
Good morning [teachers name], how are you?
Regrettably {Yeah, sure.}, I will not arrive at school today {BECAUSE I DON’T FUCKIN WANT TO.} Because I am feeling a bit under the weather. I hope you will excuse my absence {I know full well you won’t}, and have a nice day!
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Ya know when you’re tired in advance?
Like, I have a long day today, so Imma wake up tired, no problem.
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Something interesting that my twelve year old self once said:
“nobody is happy enough to have only one smile”.
#when i was 12#when i was little#thoughts#deep quotes#deep thoughts#interesting#huh#insight#insightful#life
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