I saw the whole world.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:26:12 +1000

astratos: Day & Night Over Paris | Mathieu LeGrand

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:55:05 +1000

astratos:

Day & Night Over Paris | Mathieu LeGrand

andthebluestblue: #this is the cleverest fucking commentary on...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:17:21 +1000

andthebluestblue:

#this is the cleverest fucking commentary on moffat i have ever seen

When someone thinks they're better friends with my best friend than I am

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:33:08 +1000

whatshouldwecallme:

brain-food: I was going through some of my thumb drives that i...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:06 +1000

brain-food:

I was going through some of my thumb drives that i have collecting in a shoebox and found more of my London street shots. I actually have no memories attached to these captures, I think i just lifted up my camera and shot something while i was looking around elsewhere in awe.

trickybastard: How to keep Daniel Radcliffe grounded. (x)

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:48:02 +1000

trickybastard:

How to keep Daniel Radcliffe grounded. (x)

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When I get in trouble for something but my sibling gets away with doing the same thing

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:51:44 +1000

whatshouldwecallme:

When I see pictures of my friends hanging out without me

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:36:15 +1000

whatshouldwecallme:

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:46:34 +1000

radtiredgay: my blog is authorisedbytheaustraliangovernmentcanberra

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:46:20 +1000

radtiredgay:

my blog is authorisedbytheaustraliangovernmentcanberra

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:46:02 +1000

SO GOOD!!!! The 5th full length album from The White Panda....

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:01:42 +1000

SO GOOD!!!!

The 5th full length album from The White Panda.

Tracklist:

1. Cashin’ Dreams (Ca$h Out // Smallpools)
2. Reasonably Safe (Capital Cities // Hook N Sling & NERVO)
3. Edge of Apollo (Lady Gaga // Hardwell)
4. Poetic Night (Kendrick Lamar // Katy Perry)
5. Can’t Hold Us Back (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis // Calvin Harris)
6. Viva Alive (Krewella // Coldplay)
7. Good Amber Night (Roscoe Dash // 311)
8. Boulevard of Heart Attacks (Green Day // Demi Lovato)
9. Sexual Rollin’ (Wiz Khalifa // Marvin Gaye)
10. Diamond Thrones (Rihanna // Stephen Warbeck)
11. Wide Deliveries (Katy Perry // Maroon 5 // Bubba Sparxxx)
12. Whole Lotta High (Kanye West // Led Zeppelin)
13. Lose Yourself to Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers // Daft Punk)
14. Firefly (Ellie Goulding // The Lumineers // A$AP Rocky)
15. Let’s Go on a World Tour (Wale // Carousel // Sound Remedy)
16. Good Suit & Tie Time (Justin Timberlake // Chic)
17. Baby By MJ (50 Cent // Michael Jackson)
18. A Night Out Flying (Martin Solveig // Tom Petty)
19. Money for Party Rocking (LMFAO // Dire Straits)
20. Dirty Bandz (Juicy J // Oliver)
21. Cooler than Latch (Disclosure & Sam Smith // Mike Posner)
22. Chasing the Pjanno (The Wanted // Eric Prydz // The XX)
23. All Knas Everything (Trinidad James // Steve Angello)
24. Best of Titanium (Foo Fighters // David Guetta)
25. Radioactive Funeral (Imagine Dragons // Band of Horses)
26. 500 Blessed Miles (The Proclaimers // EDX)
27. Reload the Otherside (Red Hot Chili Peppers // Sebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash)
28. Modern Reapers (Blue Oyster Cult // The Knocks)
29. Losing My Amarok (R.E.M. // Tristan Garner)
30. Don’t Wake Me, Wayfarer (Chris Brown // Audien)
31. Wallphones (Maroon 5 // Sultan & Ned Shepard)
32. A Million Swedish Summers (Bryan Adams // Swedish House Mafia // Otto Knows)
33. Push With Me (No Doubt // Tritonal // Seven Lions)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:09:50 +1000

wethinkwedream: stepheneepaige: mirandarph: The Trevor...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:08:55 +1000

wethinkwedream:

stepheneepaige:

mirandarph:

The Trevor Project

1-866-488-7386

Stop re-blogging One Direction and re-blog this shit.

The Woody one kills me

crying -

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:44:59 +1000

Tumblr Code.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:33:03 +1000

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”
that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

bbcradioone: #WHATS A KING TO A GOD

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:23:07 +1000

bbcradioone:

#WHATS A KING TO A GOD

hexokinase: fishingboatproceeds: meghantonjes: THIS IS...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:21:40 +1000

hexokinase:

fishingboatproceeds:

meghantonjes:

THIS IS EVERYTHING.

How does this have 15,000 notes?

Anyway, context: I received this good advice from my chaplaincy supervisor when I worked as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital in 2000. We were talking not about any of the terrible things I’d witnessed at the hospital but about my breakup with my college girlfriend.

One time when I was a chaplain, this especially awful thing happened, and a bunch of us had to attend this post trauma debriefing/group therapy session. (The theory goes that this was a way to prevent or minimize PTSD, I think.) So here is this big group of people—doctors, nurses, social workers, paramedics, etc.—all being forced to attend this group therapy session they don’t particularly want to be at, and the counselor person is asking all of us to recount what happened that night, which no one is particularly inclined to do.

Eventually, I tell a story about my girlfriend: When I came home the morning after this thing had happened, I was really freaking out, and she was not particularly empathetic. This story animates everyone: They all start talking about my girlfriend, and how she’s just like their boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse, and how I should really break up with her, because that’ll show her.

So I did break up with her.

Of course, I immediately regretted it, but once she was free of obligation to me she probably felt tremendous relief and had no intention of re-entangling. (This was very sane and mature of her, in retrospect.) So I spent my days moping around the hospital, not because of the horrible things I’d seen but because I missed this woman so much. And I felt like an idiot being so upset over this girl when there were far worse things happening around me at the hospital every day.

Which just made everything worse: I was sad because I was no longer close to this woman I loved. And then I was ashamed because I felt more upset about my own stupid romantic problems than about the illness and death that was all around me in the hospital. I felt like my problems were silly and small, but they still made me very sad, and I could never seem to get out of that spiral.

All of this combined to make me super annoying to be around. Fortunately, I was surrounded by chaplains, who are basically professionally empathetic, and are required by job description to listen to you.

It was my supervisor who finally helped me understand why I was so sad, and that I should feel sad. So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered.

I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.

Between online-John and author-John (particularly in TFiOS) I just love what he has to say about suffering.
Minimising someone’s pain is so very helpful even if your comment seems to you like it should be comforting. Acknowledging someone’s pain can be among the most helpful things I think.