Something I Started Just After Alone At Sea, Taking Place Some Time Before Gem Hunt.  A Little Darker

We're being robbed of new ideas as we're being kept in this age of nostalgia for a cash grab... Sometimes I wonder if our parents had to deal with this. Seeing a show they loved as kids being remade into something similar or different for the next generation. Did it make them happy? Make them sad? Did they buy into the idea that the past isn't truly dead but only zombified for money and ratings? Sorry, quick rant.

im normal

“Your identity should be so secure that when someone walks away from you they don’t take you with them.”

— Unknown

I'm not gonna lie.... I do feel this. From when I was kid, I'd always mimic the MCs in anime and cartoons. I personally loved the timeskips because for me, it was like I'm growing and learning along with them, showing off my newly acquired skills and feeling like others as well as myself could see those changes. But now... I'm moving faster than them... too fast but also too slow. There's now a disconnect in what I watch and its a quiet heartbreak that I've aged past them... Damn.

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

So long as it doesn't hurt you of others in the process!

i can’t wait to wake up one day with no heavy weight on my heart, just genuine peace

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An idea for 2017

Goals of 2017: Make a good new normal.

Create a new, everyday normal that is filled both people and things that you enjoy. Get people you like being around, start doing things that you enjoy doing! And make THAT a part of your everyday life!

But you need to remove negative influences from your life and remove things that upset you. (PLEASE NOTE: This one needs to be taken with a grain of salt though.) Because obviously there are going to be plenty of things that will upset you but not all of them can be removed from your life. Maybe in some cases, the things that upset you can actually help you grow.

“Our generation thinks it’s cool not to care. It’s not. Effort is cool. Caring is cool. Staying loyal is cool. Try it out.”

— Post Malone

Need this on my wall or something

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964

I'm really trying to...