The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

what do people in their twentys do except go to the grocery store……….

sometimes we lie in bed paralyzed by the knowledge that life is neither meaningful nor enjoyable

and then we go get snacks

you know what i find really weird? that when people ask me what languages i can speak or what languages i’m studying, i never think of saying “english” too. knowing this particular language is such a taken for granted thing, like everyone everywhere should know it, like it doesn’t take years of efforts and immersion, mistakes upon mistakes, constant trial and error. so i guess what i want to say to those who are not english natives: congratulations. you do know a language, however much it feels some days like it’s obvious you should know it. you worked for it, however much passively it entered your life. and you’re doing amazing.

I kind of really needed this…

This actually made me feel better

do not put up with passive agression. the people in your life should respect you enough to be straight forward with you. If someone does not come to you directly with an issue, it is not yours too fix. you can’t spend all your time picking apart your relationship with someone, searching for what you did, and blaming yourself when you don’t even know what for. it’s not fair for people to put you through that.

Finding someone who thinks you’re interesting enough to talk to you every day, whether they’re a friend or a lover, is one of the best feelings ever.

i’m in the middle of writing my dissertation on the european witch trials and the more research i do into it the more it bothers me that the whole thing has become such a gimmick today, like the town i live in runs a nightly ‘ghost tour’ which ends on the hill where they hung 12 women for witchcraft in the mid 17th century. the reality is the witch trials were a crime against humanity, the victims were mostly children, widows and elderly women and some historians have estimated that the total number of people tortured and killed was upwards of half a million. it’s such a torrid chapter of human history but it’s viewed almost entirely as a joke outside of academic spheres and i think we all know the reason why