Misty drops of ecstasy

Edvard Munch, 1895

this is so cool! add your real and mental age in the tags :)

I am a psychiatrist. I have been for 27 years. I’m completely worn out. Year after year, listening to patients who aren’t satisfied with their lives, who want to have fun, who want me to help them with that - it wears you out, I can tell you. My life isn’t exactly a lot of fun either. People demand so much. That’s the conclusion I’ve drawn after all these years. They demand to be happy, at the same time as they are egocentric, selfish, and ungenerous. Well, I would like to be honest. I would like to say that they are quite simply mean, most of them. Spending hour after hour in therapy, trying to make a mean person happy… There’s no point. You can’t do it. I’ve stopped doing it. These days, I just prescribe pills. The stronger, the better. 

I have been to Pompeii, and it was mesmerizing, if such a word can be used. It was as though I was walking with ghosts and I remember wishing that I could have lived in another time and place so I could have witnessed the art & times of  this incredible place. I feel like that with much of history. But Pompeii was so full of memory that I  never wanted to leave. I hope that its integrity and value as an archaeological and historical site remains a constant priority for conservators.

Belvoir Tree, Autumn Morning by Gerard1972 (leave credit)

“You, yourself, this whole big drama, it was never more than a jerry rig of presumption and dumb will, and you could just let go. To finally know that you didn’t have to hold on so tight. To realize that all your life, all your love, all your  hate, all your memories, all your pain, it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room, a dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams, there’s a monster at the end of it.”

“i raised my seared eyes to the fathomless glare, and i saw the black stars hanging in the heavens: and the wet winds from the lake of hali chilled my face.” ~the king in yellow / in the court of the dragon.