#usandthem

𝖊𝖝𝖈𝖊𝖕𝖙 𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖞𝖔𝖚....🦇💜

Credit: us and them (2018)

The broken elevator story where jianqing tells xiaoxiao that only an interesting story can help them climb [the stairs] faster reminds me of when he once told her how misfortune, not happiness, is a story and how she responded with, ‘Then I don’t want to have a story with you.’ Ultimately, THEIR own misfortune has led to jianqing reaching his dreams and finally making it in beijing. The beauty of this film, really, is just in the inevitability of everything. We knew all along that jianqing and xiaoxiao have broken up, but what makes it so tragic and heart-wrenching nonetheless? It’s because estrangement & fallouts are just as inevitable in the real world. Some people are transitory and are just momentarily present in our lives to help us become better people, and no matter how much we try imagining a future with them or try our best not to hurt them, everything eventually leads to where it must lead to. Not even our greatest what-ifs could change that. And so, the kindest gesture we can really do for them and ourselves is to apologize, to forgive, and to wish them better and brighter days— even if those days no longer involve us. 

Xylokastro, Greece, 2020 #xylokastro #greece #peloponnese #summertime #beach #doubleportrait #portait #animals #usandthem #dog #sunbathing https://www.instagram.com/p/CAbFQNzB3U0/?igshid=xh8aw13d52j

Books we love! Helmut Newton and Alice Springs. Us and Them is an ode to partnership and art. First published in 1999, it gathers photographs by Helmut Newton and his wife, the actress and photographer June Newton, who worked under the pseudonym Alice Springs. The collection is arranged into five sections, alternating the gaze between Newton and Spring’s own tender internal world of “Us,” and the glamorous encounters of their social and professional milieu—“Them.” #helmutnewton #alicesprings #book #taschen #photography #truelove #bookcollectors #usandthem #homedecor #interiordesign #giftshop #artgallery #losangeles #lamaisonrebelle (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz9DqcpHgxo/?igshid=mgfkign4bkga

Và hóa ra, những năm tháng ấy, thứ chúng ta bỏ lỡ không phải tình yêu, mà là dũng khí... Dũng khí cùng nắm tay nhau băng qua những khó khăn, thử thách khi ấy.”