❤this
by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
So glad I have friends like this in my life. Helps balance out all the flakey fuckholes.
Dreams
Last night I dreamt that earth was no longer habitable and I traveled with a lot of people to this absolutely gorgeous other planet.
It looked like Elysium but with even more green and it was in a sphere shape. It was the safe haven that we all depended on and every day we went to church to thank god and the planet for what it provided.
Then one night as we were all falling asleep under the stars, (there were very few buildings) I was looking at the sky and a piece of the atmosphere broke off and tumbled to the ground beside me, as if it was made of some sort of very light stone. Then more little bits and peices came crumbling down and suddenly the whole atmosphere was collapsing, sucking out all of the oxygen and letting in a harmful gas. We all got up, confused and afraid, gathered our few belongings and made a break for our little ship. I was with two other people and the ship was only built for three. The ship was several miles away and we had to run on foot, which is very hard to do when there Is almost no oxygen left. As we ran we saw buildings and trees on fire. The ground was starting to become hot lava and we watched as people either died around us or became zombies on the verge of death. We were able to grab three others to rescue as well but that was all our ship could carry. I think I only saw one of the giant ships leave to carry people to safety. We finally reached our ship but some rogue toxicated people saw and they tried to take over and leave with the ship instead, but we got out just in time and I watched their terrified faces as we flew away. We soared over the planet and I watched as what had once been so incredibly beautiful turn to fire and ash and swirling darkness. I felt so sad for my home and had no idea where else we could go. The people I was with knew of another planet that was pretty habitable but no one really knew much about it. With heavy hearts we started our journey there, and that’s when I woke up.
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (via nymfit)
I would like to step out of my heart
and go walking beneath the enormous sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke, from Selected Poems (via sea—legs)
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.
Elizabeth Edwards (via jrandahlm)
In my life
I do not not wish for perfect people.
Give me those with rough edges
And yellowed pages
And dog-eared words for bookmarks
Candles that have burned too
low in the night
Drafty windows
And shoes that don’t fit right.
People, real
Are those
Who appeal
To me.
~回音.
Life
We all have those moments, those days where we come to the depressing conclusion that there is no meaning to life.
That we’re all simply here to flounder.
But I truly hope to think it leads to some sort of bigger picture, even if that bigger picture only goes so far as an individual. The thought that all of this is meaningless drains any energy I have of putting effort into anything at all and that’s not the kind of life I want to lead.
I demand happiness, I demand euphoria.
And sometimes you find things, unexpected things that are just so beautiful you have to think: who would go to all the trouble to make this if it meant nothing, you know? Or maybe everything beautiful in the world started out as a happy accident that meant nothing and grew into more; made itself mean something. And maybe it won’t hold meaning for everyone or matter to everyone, but it will to someone.
And sometimes I think maybe that’s all that really matters.