Grow a Mile in our Shoes
Being short makes you feel like, no matter how old you get, you are still a kid compared to the rest of the world.
Maybe that’s why my mother still acts youthful, with all the emotions that come so unwrapped within children, unripened, without the subduction that sets in with age. Maybe that is why I will be the same way when I am her age. Maybe that is why, when we go out, we wear the highest heels we can find, to feel like we are adults and can blend in with the rest of the adult-world, dressed up in our grown-up disguises.
“Two round little stones on the roof with us
We throw ‘em off, perfectly in love
To the old ground below
And I say it’s so, cause I say it’s so
And oh, then we loosen up
We loosen up with the setting sun
Aglow in our heart of hearts
Which shall beat for us - they club and club
You know what I’m thinking of
And I thought a lot, about the thoughts I’ve got
The old wind blows
And we will know what it is
And we will know what it is
I no longer look in the branches of a dozen fallen logs
For an answer, love
To my old aching heart and my aching thoughts of a lover gone
And oh, then we loosen up and start saying stuff
We are saying stuff
Alone, in our common thoughts, of “I want, I want, but I don’t know what”
And won’t till my soul dissolves
When my soul dissolves, like a setting sun
Or a falling star
And we will know what it is
And we will know what it is
I want, I want, but I don’t know what
Oh (And we will know what it is)”
What It Means To Be "Tea Drunk"
“For me, being tea drunk feels euphoric. There is a strong sense of focus and calm, an acceptance of the world around me / feeling of contentment, and a pleasing light-headedness / sense of floating. I’ve heard others list symptoms such as a giggly, bouncy or goofy feeling, a feeling of emotional bliss, a contemplative or philosophical mindset, or an introspective, sensitive mood. The overall effect is often described as a very ‘Zen’ feeling.
It is thought that tea drunkenness is a result of the combination of caffeine and other molecules in tea, particularly L-theanine. Consumed without caffeine, L-theanine induces a very calm (and often very sleepy) state, and it is in trial stages for use as an anxiety reducing drug. However, when combined with caffeine, L-theanine is thought to increase the production of alpha waves in the brain, inducing a meditative state without making you tired.”
The Beginning of A Life-Long Romance.
Random thought of the night: It’s funny how when people are falling into love, they wouldn’t choose to change a single thing about themselves, but when people are falling out of love, they want to change everything about themselves. Think about it; when people first break up, they have the urge to totally reinvent themselves. They cut their hair, try a new lipstick— anything to cast away the old them, the one who was with the person that they are trying to equally cast out of their lives. When people are falling into love, they see the beauty in themselves through the eyes of their lover and see the rest of the world with the same vision, a vision that sees all the good and makes peace with the bad. I want to view the world as if I am always in love: to see the beauty in everything that surrounds me and in myself and all others that I encounter. I want to always have that comfort in my heart, where no matter what negative things befall me throughout my day, they do not get me down and I am able to see the strange loveliness of that combination of good and bad that accompanies this wonderful life … because I am loved. But not by anyone else. By myself.
After all, as Oscar Wilde once said, “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
Hey so I found a picture that I saved of you a hundred years ago. And I'm just warning you that I'm posting it so that you don't happen to see it and be like ...what the..this chick stalking me and saving my pictures? I promise I saved it when you first posted it a while ago and kept meaning to put it up but never did but now I'm doing it..Haha. Yeah so....ILOVEYOU! <3
Wow, I have had a tumblr for a very long time now, and I am just now realizing that there is a message-section! (and am thus just now seeing this!) My goodness, how behind the tumblr-times am I?! Haha. I love you too, sweetheart. <3 (I am curious as to what photo it was you were talking about now!)
Happy Alone - Earlimart
“Call in the airstrike, tell them to make the drop
and now she ate a cycle no-one but you can stop
Would it be fair to say that you’re in love with love?
And is that enough?
I bet you feel really potent stuff
the shadows of doubt on how things turn out
are typically gray
But even the stucco on the wall
is right two times a day
and it’s still enough
Just how much distance means we’re on our own?
and can we be happy
Happy alone?
The universe opens up the door
and we go right in, it’s there, it’s new, it’s cool
it’s something we ain’t seen before
And five minutes in
an egg timer rings
to clip off our carefree flapping wings
show us the things we can’t afford
and throw us overboard
but it’s still enough.
Just how much distance means we’re on our own?
until i see you off at home
down the sidewalk in my head
I might be sinking like a stone
but perfectly happy
just openly happy
In my heart, I’ve always known
I gotta be happy alone
so burn the mail, destroy the phone
yeah, I’d wanna be happy alone
the moving sky, the rocks below
All so perfectly happy alone
Our little hearts have turned to stone
I’d better be happy alone.”
<3
