April 2009
17 posts
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
—Anais Nin, accidentally encapsulating the driving theory behind cognitive behavioral therapy: the idea that our own thoughts make our lives what they are, that we see things through our own filters and that, if we can adjust those filters somewhat, we can adjust - quite literally - how we experience the world. (via psychotherapy) (via absurdfroufrou)
“i feel. i feel so… when your eyebrows slope down towards your ears and you are overcome by the desire to eat complicated fruit very slowly and carefully. that is how i feel. and like the poem about the cold moon, apples, and coins sobbing gently in your pocket. like that.
everything is so very inexpressible!” —(via tarts) (via absurdfroufrou)
everything is so very inexpressible!” —(via tarts) (via absurdfroufrou)
listening to "Whether You Fall - Tracy Bonham" →
blip.fm
One of them rainy day songs.
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”
—Neil Gaiman (via devincastro) (via thecataclysm) (via yellowburst)
Is there a name for this.
One person sees you as somehow unapproachable (something seems off with you) that even if s/he notices that you did something wrong, s/he will not point it out to you because s/he thinks:
a) it will take too much time and effort to no avail
b) you will get mad/slighted/murderous
c) that wrong deed can be justified anyway
The Never Mind Phenomenon?
It’s OK Don’t Sweat it Even if it’s Important Syndrome?
I Can’t Approach You Hence I will Retreat into a Corner and Witness this Outrage Come into Fruition Syndrome?
