karina

you may be losing the idgaf war but they wouldn't even let me enlist. on account of my poet's temperament.

currently allowing myself the decadent indulgence of believing wholeheartedly in my ability to survive this.

I’m going to live and it’s going to be horrible and awful and wonderful and painful and joyous and like going across monkey bars with a sprained wrist and like drinking a glass of freshly made orange juice and difficult and so damn long. but I’m going to and I’m going to and then I’m going to wake up and survive it all again.

(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

the mughals colonized india, therefore india should genocide muslims, the romans colonized palestine, therefore israel should genocide the palestinians, the ottomans colonized kosovo, therefore serbia should genocide kosovar albanians. colonialism isn't an actual ongoing process of exploitation and displacement but actually a grab bag of historical grievances that one may pluck out at their convenience whenever there is an ethnic or religious minority to exterminate. maybe one day denmark will make the dirty swedes atone for colonizing skåne

you all only hate me because you do not like me and i am mean to you. grow up

5. Depression being represented by like 6 blank chapters titled with months.

"if mushrooms are the superior lifeform that really calls the shots on this earth, why haven't they destroyed us yet?" listen to yourself. have we as humans gotten rid of every mountain on the planet just because we are smarter than big rocks? no!! because they don't pose a threat to us. sure some people die rock climbing or skiing and that's tragic but mountains aren't dangerous to us as a global society. do you see where i am going with this. it's your misplaced hubris that makes you think that humankind is worth destroying to a mushroom. we are a part of the mundane landscape on the surface. we pose no threat to the mycelian era. humble yourself

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”

when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

my friend is very confident and free and i always want to know how she does it so once i asked her and she just said “the only difference between me and you is that when people treat you badly you think it’s because there’s something wrong with you but when people treat me badly i think there’s something wrong with them.” scalped