Actually The Marker Of A Responsible Adult, To Me, Is Integrity. No One Has Integrity Anymore. If You

Actually the marker of a responsible adult, to me, is integrity. No one has integrity anymore. If you say you’re going to do something then do it. I stopped associating with just ideas people awhile ago. Ideas don’t get you very far, the best things rarely start with an idea, they start with a sensation. The feeling of your heart exploding. Like you’re shrouded in darkness in a forest and all that guides you to the thing is the ear attuned to the vibrancy around you. The idea was left behind ages ago, it never served you the way the sensation serves you.

Sorry I’m late I was touching soft moss on a stone wall

So crazy how you have the worst day of your life but then the next day the sun keeps shining and the air’s just a little cooler w the onset of fall and you realize that there’s nothing you can’t come back from because the only time it will ever be too late is when we’re dead and not ever before

"Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It's a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body. I think this fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way, and to use that part of my mind that I think is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I'll meet in my life to appreciate the general public. I wish I thought about people like this more often. I think it's the opposite of what our culture teaches us to do. We prefer to pick people apart to find their flaws. Cultivating these feelings of love or appreciation for random people, and even for people I don't like, makes me a more forgiving and appreciative person toward myself and people I love. Also, it's just a really excellent pastime."

— Dean Spade, from his essay For Lovers and Fighters

IM GOING TO LOVE THIS LIFE. NO MATTER WHAT