You are made of star stuff

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

#How did I not know that platypus are tiny!?!#They max out at 2 ft long and 6 and a half pounds

not to be a soccer nerd but thinking about team dynamics and uniform numbers and how jackie wears a 9 bc she’s a striker - obvs that’s the striker’s number. and shauna has the 6 which is (narratively a foil to jackie) and also defending midfielder. tai is the 8 which is ur classic box to box midfielder like jus well rounded support… nat is 7 a winger/backup striker. lottie is 5, centre back sweeper…. the implications. van as the goalie….. should i write thr whole post bc like i’m going insane and i don’t think ppl talk about their team positions enough