crowded dream
possiblydreaming:

robot-heart:

like ants (via Cecilia D.)
(via gatekeeper)
"Don’t take away my shine
My shine is all I have
My heat, my love, my beauty and my glad
It worries me sometimes that I want love
And live a life of sad"
Danile Lanois
(via gatekeeper)
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"I’ve had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling. Our love for children is so unlike any other human emotion. I fell in love with my babies so quickly and profoundly, almost completely independently of their particular qualities. And yet 20 years later I was (more or less) happy to see them go – I had to be happy to see them go. We are totally devoted to them when they are little and yet the most we can expect in return when they grow up is that they regard us with bemused and tolerant affection. We are ambitious for them, we want them to thrive so badly. And yet we know that we have to grant them the autonomy to make their own mistakes. In no other human relation do we work so hard to accomplish such an ill-defined goal, which is precisely to create a being who will have goals that are not like ours."
Alison Gopnik (via psychotherapy) (via gatekeeper)
"New York is the loneliest city. It doesn’t smoke anymore, it doesn’t drink much anymore, it doesn’t do drugs, it’s too rich and too expensive. The people who made the fun for the people who made the money have moved out. It’s safe. But the city that doesn’t sleep can now barely stay awake for dessert—if it ever ate dessert. Music’s gone from something you shared in a dark room to a white box that hangs round your neck. Dance is no longer the vertical promise of horizontal desire; it’s self-improvement. In a generation, New York swapped Studio 54 for an African-dance class. We don’t just connive in our own humiliation, but in our own loneliness, too."
A. A. Gill, “The Sorrow and the Pilates”
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(via girlmeetsdream)
Does it get easier?