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I'm Ali - 27/f/queer/DC. This is a collection of stuff I find beautiful, strange, hilarious, or otherwise intriguing
“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
Hugh Laurie (via storergoestocollege)(Source: silkandmarble, via kimberbatch)
“I started finding it difficult to revere the couple as the fundamental unit of society. I became a little ornery about it, to be honest: that couples paid lower taxes together, that they could afford better apartments, that there were so few structures of support to ease the raising of a child as a single person, that the divorced experience a sense of failure, that failed marriages are accompanied by so much logistical stress on top of the emotional difficulties. All this because we privilege a certain idea of love. The thought of the natural progression of couples, growing more and more insular, buying nicer and nicer furniture, shutting down the world, accruing things, relaxing into habit, scared me. As I grew older, I found it difficult to distinguish romantic love from other kinds of connections: the platonic love for the friends I did not want to have sex with, the euphoric chemical urges toward people I had sex with but did not love. Why was love between couples more exceptional? Because it attached itself to material objects, and to children? Because it ordered civilization?”
- Emily Witt, “What Do You Desire?” - n+1What Do You Desire→
http://nplusonemag.com/what-do-you-desire
“When your life does not conform to an idea, and this failure makes you feel bad, throwing away the idea can make you feel better.”
