July 2012
“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.”
—Zadie Smith
Ohmygods, books just keep spilling out of every corner of this room…I just found over a hundred books under a dresser.
What even.
Scotland is working to legalize same-sex marriage!
Read about it here.
I'm going through all my shit and getting rid of most of it.
The probability of me actually becoming a nomad is increasing with every garbage bag.
King and Lionheart
Of Monsters and Men
Of Monsters and Men | King and Lionheart
“We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.”
—Howard Zinn
