My Turn Holding This World
“hank, i didn’t see the harry potter on midnight of opening day like you did, but i went to see it last night with the yeti and we were sitting there, like, thirty minutes before it started and the theater was filling up and i was like, ‘i am so excited about the harry potter movie! i get to see luna lovegood and i’m gonna’ cry at the end.’ and then i really liked the movie because it was funny, but it was also sad, and it didn’t tell destructive lies about teenage sexuality like some other movies i’ve seen recently. and ron weasley has gotten so buff. i mean, hank, the movie was great, but the thirty minutes before the movie started was what i love about being a nerd. because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. we don’t have to be like, ‘oh yeah, that purse is okay’ or like, ‘yeah, i liked that band’s early stuff.’ nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff,’ which is just not a good insult at all. like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness.’”
(via forevercaughtintherain)
Australians are mourning the death of the man known as the “Angel of The Gap”, who stopped hundreds of people from leaping to their deaths at Sydney’s most notorious suicide spot.
Don Ritchie, 85, who lived across the road from The Gap – a treacherous coastal cliff in Sydney’s east - would stop people in distress and say: “Is there something I could do to help you?” Hundreds of strangers subsequently stopped for his “kind word and a smile” and then changed their minds about jumping to the rocks below. Some had laid their shoes, wallets and a note on the coastal rocks and were poised to leap before being gently coaxed back from the edge. Officially, Mr Ritchie saved 160 people over the past 50-odd years, though his family believe the number is closer to 500.
“He would say not to underestimate the power of a kind word and a smile…
It was often a matter of a kind word and he would bring people back to our place for a cup of tea and breakfast.. That was often needed to turn people around.” Mr Ritchie, who was born and raised not far from The Gap, served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II and subsequently worked as a life insurance salesman. His death - of natural causes - led to tributes from across the country.
(via imasquigglenotasquare)
well have gone through a year of college almost but still i get this thought every once in a while…
(Source: psarchives, via the-life-of-a-musician)
But when we say light we do not necessarily mean joy. We suffer in the light, too much of it burns. Flames are inimical to wings. To burn without ceasing to fly, that is the miracle of genius.
When you learn finally to know and when you learn finally to love, you will suffer still. The day begins in tears. Those filled with light weep, if only over those filled with darkness."
(via fuckyeah-victorhugo)
