" Once There Was A Flood In The Forest. A Frog Was Resting On The River Bank. A Scorpion Stuck In The

" Once there was a flood in the forest. A frog was resting on the river bank. A scorpion stuck in the floods requested the Frog, "Please help me cross the river!" Thee frog asked, "What if you sting me?" The Scorpion replied, "Silly, if I sting you then we will both drown. Why would I kill myself? The Frog believed the Scorpion and let him hop on his back. They began to cross the river but as soon as they reached the middle of the river, the Scorpion stung the frog. The Frog asked, "Why did you do that?" The Scorpion said, "I am a Scorpion, stinging is what I do. It is in my nature." Some men are scorpions, dear. They never change, Badru. "

-Darlings, dir Jasmeet K. Reen (2022)

PERFECT BLUE (1997) dir. Satoshi Kon

how long should i wait? later is too late.

Navillera (2021) Episode 5

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Tom Stoppard, SHIPWRECK: THE COAST OF UTOPIA Part II

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Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) Episode 9: The Pied Piper

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N.O by BTS 방탄소년단 (trans. doolsetbangtan)

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Eileen Caddy

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Makarand Kaprekar, To Race Or Not to Race, That is the Question

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“The reality is: there will always be more work. From our jobs and owning businesses, to being a manager of our families and our homes - there will always be more work. It never goes away. We never escape from the responsibilities that life presents us. But one of our main responsibilities should be ourselves, after all, there's only one of us anyway.”

Vanessa Autrey, The Art of Balancing Burnout

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[Verse 4]

I used to think I'd be done by twenty

Now at twenty-nine, the road ahead appears the same

Though maybe at thirty, I'll see a way to change

That I'm living for the knife

Working for the knife by Mitski

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cutout from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 17, 1988

Class of 2013 by Mitski

Modern Love: Mumbai (Episode 5: I Love Thane) dir. Druv Sehgal (2022)

Indian school girls sit in a park on a foggy morning in New Delhi, India, Jan. 30, 2017. Tsering Topgyal

apparently Perfect Blue (1997) film is based on the book Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis (パーフェクトブルー：完全変態) by Yoshikazu Takeuchi and it's is supposed to be even more mind messing than the film.....