I like the side of me that stops me from being passive aggressive.

toniiu:

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.  

—Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

(via fuckyeahexistentialism)

• I went to the Blue Room to get an iced coffee.
• The worker asked, “Room for milk?”
• I said, “No.”
• He gave me room for milk.

• mlia

whynicolek:

so this is what life is,

a series of disappointments, successes, failures, accomplishments—love, love lost, love rekindled, and even love abandoned

 

Little things like overloading a semester,

challenging yourself, and learning to have faith in your own ability to rise to the occasion. 

Bigger things like going back to something that’s already broken

to leave with the understanding and perspective that sometimes,

letting go is the most difficult and most painful, yet bravest thing to do.

And truly monumental things like growing enough to look at your family—your parents—as people

not as role models, breadwinners, nuisances, or the basis of whatever problems you may face,

but as people: jaded, broken, human beings trying just as hard as you to carry their faults, their mistakes along with the burden of your dreams and desires until their backs are so haunched from the weight of responsibility that they can only see the ground and how far they still have to go, instead of how far they’ve already come

to learn that with this understanding comes a sense of maturity and compassion that can’t be taught in any book or bedtime story. 

so this is what it comes down to

learning to love and let someone in

only to realize when to let go

and learn to love yourself 

(via carrinacat)

cavaan:

much of life is trying to make sense of life. we do that through attempting to express our experiences and then evaluating it to see whether they ring true. we normally need another person to hear our attempt so that we can hear it ourselves. often we don’t ask for a problem solver, because we need a listener, one who lets the other friend tell the story, and have the imagination to be with them in it.

(via colporteur)

(Source: noxtalgic, via colporteur)

apatheticghost:

what i learned from school

1. im a fucking piece of shit
2. everybody else is also a fucking piece of shit
3. mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell