If you are ever starting to lose faith in humanity, take a look around. Little acts of kindness can change the world.
Power&Peace
MissMonsoon.
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43 activists were arrested during a rally against education cuts on June 1 in Auckland.
This is at my University. I am so proud of these students.
“There’s a plane leaving for anywhere you want right now, and in an hour, and in a day, and in a year. You can get out whenever you want, it’s comforting I think.”
"Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early – exposing it prematurely to the laughter and scepticism of the world can destroy it before it is even properly born. But sometimes the opposite occurs, and the very act of mentioning a thing makes it suddenly seem possible, even plausible."
It’s funny because most Indians are ashamed to be Indian and hide their identity by cumulating Western norms into their lives. We don’t want to walk outside our houses wearing our traditional clothing, because we’re scared we will be called a ‘sand nigger’, or even better a ‘terrorist’. Many back…
Beginning to remember the academic side of ‘me’
Am writing a torturous political essay at the moment, and feeling the flame of passion and creative rhetoric take over and own.
Nice to be feel alive doing something that I often dread.
When you’re asleep beside me,
I find my way into your arms.
selfishly, I wake you
and selflessly,
You’ll hold me tighter in return.
I like being alone.
I like drinking coffee alone, and reading alone.
I like riding the bus alone, and walking home alone.
It gives me time to think, and set my mind free.
I like eating alone, and listening to music alone.
But when I see a mother with her child;
A girl with her lover;
Or a friend laughing with their best friend;
I realize that even though I like being alone,
I don’t fancy being lonely.
Dear girl
On the curb of the street
On your hands and knees
Regurgitating
your last doses
of dignity
That you traded for
A night of
glitter
and gutter beauty
Did they not tell you
That drowning
your shame
and pain
in bottles of champagne
is the slowest form of suicide?
Did your mother
not…
"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that claim a god and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one."
Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary (via passthelomein)
"We are one humanity.
We all come here speaking the same language -
the language of human emotions, laughing and crying.
No baby comes here and cries in Arabic.
No baby comes here and cries in English.
We cry human emotions
and then the environment shapes our tongue,
shapes our taste, shapes our culture
and even gives us a picture of ourselves."
Abu Qadir Al-Amin (via warriorsrise)
Questioning the teenage identity crisis.
Through all my teenage life, I have been snowed under by this idea that teens live a dark identity crisis. To be honest I think this whole idea just pressures teens to figure themselves out and FORCEFULLY ENACT what it is meant to happen themselves in the process.
We hear about teen suicide, teen depression, teen anxst, the idea that no body understands teens, that teens expereince confusion with their identity and so forth…
I question whether there ever was a deep dark identity crisis to begin with during the teen years, perhaps it’s a social construct which has pressured teens to look at themselves a certain way; made teens paranoid about who they are and thus have driven them to the self fulfilling prophecy of being in an idenitiy crisis. Is it all just fabricated? Is this idea stopping us from finding our identity naturally?
I am not saying that anyone at any stage of their lives knows who they are, I am saying that there are mediums out there that may get in the way of finding your true self- if there actually is a true-self.
