FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE.
April 2009
“I’m a far more flawed human being than you realize. My sickness is a lot worse than you think: it has deeper roots. And that’s why I want you to go on ahead of me if you can. Don’t wait for me. Sleep with other girls if you want to. Don’t let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don’t want to do. I don’t want to interfere with your life. I don’t want to interfere with anybody’s life. Like I said before, I want you to come to see me every once in a while, and always remember me. That’s all I want.”
—Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami (via expose) (via iguessthatscool) (via unicornology)
“Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don’t happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I’m going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I’ll take what I want and leave what I don’t want. That’s how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I’ll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.”
—Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami (via animinimalism)
“We tend to fall in love the same way we get sick: without wanting to, without expecting it, against our will and unable to defend ourselves. And then we lose love exactly the same way.”
—(via hugbug) (via deathbydebauchery) (via pieceofmymind) (via springzephyr) (via justlia)
i haven’t seen Michael in two months.
i guess you can say it’s been an easy let go. some sadness, some tears - but throughout all this time there hasn’t been an ounce of feeling regret or lost.
michael taught me a lot about patience and compromise. a lot about myself. a lot about people. i have to thank him for letting me grow and teaching me about basketball, but most of all i have to thank him for letting me be me.
im not sure when we can be friends again. but im looking forward to it.
“Please,” Teacher Fei said, looking up at the man. “Could you stay for just a minute?” If he sounded pathetic, he did not care. “You and I … ,” he said slowly, glancing over at the entrance to the diner, where a pair of college students, a girl and a boy, were studying the menu on the wall. “We are the kind of men who would not kick our feet or flail our arms if someone came to strangle us to death. Most people would assume that we must be guilty if we didn’t fight back. A few would think us crazy or stupid. A very few would perhaps consider us men with dignity. But you and I alone know that they are all wrong, don’t we?”
—yiyun li - “a man like him”, The New Yorker (via samkrunch)
Listen
Rufus Wainwright & Ben Folds - Careless Whisper
Although the word is Portuguese in origin, saudade is a universal feeling related to love. It occurs when two people are in love, but apart from each other. Saudade occurs when we think of a person who we love and we are happy about having that feeling while we are thinking of that person, but he/she is out of reach, making us sad and crushing our hearts.
(via joshdivision)
yes. just…yes.
