lampoonedideas:

I want to take off your hat and throw it into the fire
To see your eyes dance,
As you imagine all the reasons
For my destruction.

Jump into your open caverns and explore the solitude
While you vacuum emotion from the atmosphere.

Push you just to see your anger.
Admit to lies to taunt…

America!

You’ve made the right choice tonight!

"We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving…We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins…We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We are the daughters of the feminists who said ‘You can be anything’ and we heard ‘You have to be everything.’"
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters - Courtney E. Martin

(Source: adaptationorretribution)

"To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love—because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. | The Virtue of Selfishness, 32"
Tags | Ayn Rand |
rainbowsawr:

papasmurfsurf:

Memories are actually reconstructed every time we think of them.

Also, reconstruction means that they aren’t perfectly brought back to our thoughts. Every single memory changes over time and is extremely deceiving. They aren’t perfect recreations of actual events, and are also vulnerable to bias. This is why eye witness testimony isn’t reliable.
Secondly, this picture is extremely misleading. There isn’t a correlation between hemisphere dominance and personality. Our personality is located in our frontal lobe which isn’t in the left or right. Being right handed or left handed doesn’t necessarily define which brain hemisphere is more dominant either.

rainbowsawr:

papasmurfsurf:

Memories are actually reconstructed every time we think of them.

Also, reconstruction means that they aren’t perfectly brought back to our thoughts. Every single memory changes over time and is extremely deceiving. They aren’t perfect recreations of actual events, and are also vulnerable to bias. This is why eye witness testimony isn’t reliable.

Secondly, this picture is extremely misleading. There isn’t a correlation between hemisphere dominance and personality. Our personality is located in our frontal lobe which isn’t in the left or right. Being right handed or left handed doesn’t necessarily define which brain hemisphere is more dominant either.

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research

So I’m doing research into eating disorders, looking into post-recovery. 

There were a few very interesting things that have come through different interviews, one of them was a young girl telling me what pushed her into recovery. She said that she had an ECG (electrocardiography) and her doctor told her that her body was eating away her heart. 

It appears that people don’t realise the risks of what they are doing to their bodies until someone goes through bare, boring, very technical facts with them. Not for everyone of course, it doesn’t work on everyone, but it does seem to help some. 

"So I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache."
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

(Source: mojitosandblow)

"

“If for an instant God forgot that
I am just a puppet, and He gave me one more piece of life,
I would take advantage of that time, the best I could.”

I would probably not say everything I think,
but definitely think all I say.

I would value things not for what they are worth,
but for what they represent.

I would sleep less and dream more.
For every minute we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light.

I would continue where others have stopped
and I would rise when others sleep.

If God allowed me one more piece of life, I would dress simpler,
would wallow in the sunlight, leaving uncovered,
not only my body but also my soul.

I would prove to men how wrong they are to think that
they stop falling in love as they get older,
since they actually start getting older as soon as they stop falling in love.

I would give wings to the children,
but I would leave the child alone
so that he could learn how to fly on his own.

To the old, I would show them
how death comes not with the ageing process but with forgetting.

So many things I have learned from you….
I have learned that everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain,
forgetting that is how we climb is all that matters.

I have learned that when a newborn grabs his father’s thumb,
he takes a hold on him forever.

I have learned that a man has the right to look down on somebody,
only when he is helping him to get up.

So many things I have learned from all of you.

Always tell, what you feel and do what you think.

If I knew that today it would be the last time that I will see you,
I will embrace you strongly to be the guardian of your soul.

If I would know that these would be the last minutes
that I will see you, I would say to you
“I love you” and wouldn´t assume that you would know it.

There is always morning where life gives us
another opportunity to make things good.

Keep always close to you, your dear ones, and tell them
how much you need them and love and take care of them.

Take time to say, “I am sorry”, “forgive me”, “please,”
“ thank you” and all the nice and lovely words you know.

Nobody would remember you if you keep your thoughts secret.

Force yourself to express them.

Show your friends and dear ones how much you care about them.

"
Gabriel García Marquez (2008) the goodbye letter

This turned out to be a rant on policy making, which I find myself agreeing with.

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