Snowstorms In July

Snapshot from an era

Reupload, since tumblr doesn’t like displaying actual 120x120 / 64 x 64 images properly

The world operates in such a way that it has an infinite amount of things a person can become mad or irritated about. That is why the first step to peace is to learn to let go, to shed the weight of that world from your shoulders... people’s expectations, your expectations, grudges, hate... to come to acceptance with those issues that plague you, and give them away. 

Pixel Art I made recently

Honestly it became too intrusive to check social media in my life, and when it got too tiresome it just felt pointless... like everyone was just posting meaningless details of their life that nobody truly cared for, and everyone just didn’t care about each other... its like they were just platforms of narcissists who just cared about how many likes and views their posts get... including me at one point. And then once I discovered how social media sites sell your data to companies and how anything you post is owned by most of them, that was the final straw. Like... how could I be such an idiot? Nothing in this world is free, I knew that... so then why did I not investigate into social media further??? I was basically duped... as well as many other people... like people trust social media sites with their data too much, like the people on snapchat or instagram who send/post nudes, or the people on twitter who makes remarks that could cause them to not get jobs/get fired from them, like, anything we post is P U B L I C and A C C E S S I B L E by many people, or anyone if they tried hard enough. No more will I participate in that social sphere, if I want to control my own life and destiny it will be through less intrusive forms, and within my own social sphere, not with 280 people, most of whom I have never met. 

This guy and the Hell’s Angels ruined hippies for everyone

Tbh its kinda sad that one of the major disadvantages of the internet is that now we have to search harder to find the truth. To be informed no longer means just reading the news anymore, to truly be informed we have to read ALL the news and constantly fact check ourselves. I’ve mostly began doing this during the 2016 election and it just showed to me how amazingly polarized this country is. It has also led me to try and find the true source of America’s political divide, searching past the superficial, euphemist statements and inflammatory, accusatory language that is so common in politics and everyday talk. We aren’t in a divide because its “racists vs. minorities” or “trump acolytes vs. liberal snowflakes...” at its heart its an ideological war between the America thats opposed to the recent change in demographics, power structures, religion, international politics, technology, climate, science, and economy, and the America that welcomes these changes too readily. Both sides have become incredibly intolerant of each other, to the point where people on one side can believe themselves to be “superior” to the other, thus affecting trust, debate, research, and information accuracy. We need to find a way to compromise with each other, be more inclusive, and search harder for the truth, or else the fruits of this nation’s culture war will turn sour and not only lead to the stagnation and hate we have begun to see in the past decade, but contention on a scale much larger than what we saw in 1960s, and maybe even the 1860s, if we aren’t careful.

Literal soundtrack for 2018, it has been such a weird year so far