What keeps me grounded and happy?
The extreme reality hit I get when I walk past the same homeless people in Perth every freezing morning when I realize I have a job, enough money to buy food, some luxuries, supportive friends & family and a roof over my head.
It hits hard. Every day. Those people are soldiers.
Lol any see on the news in the latest Julia Gillard/Tony Abbott popularity toll, there was footage of Julia Gillard saying the labor party are going to “Stand Up And Fight.”
I’ve been collecting Disney snowglobes for years. ^-^
Before all the Disney stores shut down in Australia about 10 years ago, they used to sell for 50AU each here. Now, all these years later I’ve seen them go up in value to almost triple what I bought them for. I have a Dopey snowglobe that is on ebay for $180!!
My favourite is a Cinderella carriage snowglobe I got in a 3-level Disney store in Paris when I was 9. :)
(via mermaiderotica)
Who guards the north? Judging from the above photograph, possibly giant trees covered in snow and ice. The picture was taken last winter in Finnish Lapland where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow. Surreal landscapes sometimes result, where common trees become cloaked in white and so appear, to some, as watchful aliens. Far in the distance, behind this uncommon Earthly vista, is a more common sight — a Belt of Venus that divided a darkened from sunlit sky as the Sun rose behind the photographer. Of course, in the spring, the trees have thawed and Lapland looks much different.
In that moment, the dwelling place of eternity, hearts and souls became clear to me. It was as if I understood everything that had happened in the past thirteen years. And the time which was to come. And I became unbearably sad. Her warmth, her spirit… How should I treat them? Where do I bring them? That was something I did not know. That we could not be together forever after this… was a fact I clearly grasped. The vast lives we had ahead of us, the boundless amount of time that stretched out in front of us… But the anxieties which I had caught soon melted away. And after that, only her tender lips remained.
5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai, 2007)
I am feeling very similar to Takaki in the first chapter of 5 centimetres per second right now. It’s almost too much to bear.
I’m finding my attachment to a few people - one in particular is actually working against me.. and knowing they are going away is making me less willing to see them, rather than me wanting to spend as much time with them while I can. It’d be easier to have never cared in the first place but alas, that’s not how it works.
My disappointment obviously illustrates an imagined future that has been snatched for me. Too often I underestimate the transience of life. So i ask this much..
Is it better to live in the right now, in this very moment and react entirely on impulses or protect your blind side and live in the foreseeable future?
At the very least, I feel, therefore I can still love and be capable of receiving love.