mahgoa

"He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course if each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, our nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life has unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by midafternoon he was again overcome by the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad."

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via aequinoctium)

— 9 months ago with 21 notes

#on sadness

other-wordly:

pronunciation | ‘sau-“da-dE

— 10 months ago with 19552 notes

#words

rhamphotheca:

wickedfuzz: Good Bye Old Friend

Elephants are legendary for their memory and intelligence including attributes associated with grief, making music, altruism and compassion. We came across this elephant whose corpse was overcome by vultures and jackals. From a distance we heard and then saw another elephant approaching at a fast pace. She was successful at chasing away the predators and then very slowly and with much empathy wrapped her trunk around the deceased elephants tusk. She stayed in this position for several hours guarding her friend.

(© John Chaney/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

— 10 months ago with 1351 notes

#animal behavior

expose-the-light:

Animals Inside Womb

These amazing embryonic animal photographs of dolphins, sharks, dogs, penguins, cats and elephants are from a new National Geographic Documentary called “Extraordinary Animals in the Womb”.

(via staceythinx)

— 10 months ago with 2558 notes

#animalia #wow

my soundtrack on the subway →

(frankocean)

— 10 months ago with 39905 notes

#frank ocean album stream

naranjitoo:

Black Panther, Merab Abramishvili.

(Source: windypoplarsroom)

— 10 months ago with 1445 notes

#animalia

A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition (by weepingprophet)

— 10 months ago

#future self #past self

kqedscience:

A dog’s last moments photographed

“Photographer Tou Chih-kang captures the last moment of shelter dogs before they are taken away by veterinarians to be put down. Tou has recorded the last moments of about 400 dogs, hoping the images will encourage responsibility among pet owners.”

(via allcreatures)

— 10 months ago with 1683 notes

#social responsibility #death

(via frankocean)

— 10 months ago with 187023 notes

#hypnotic

(via naranjitoo)

— 10 months ago with 171 notes

#this sort of creeps me out #monkey wasp

found crumpled on my doorstep.

— 10 months ago with 3 notes

#wake up call

Alan Truong // John Legend - “Tonight (Best You’ve Ever Had)” (alantru0ng)

— 10 months ago

#dance sequence #summer fling

teapayne:

take a moment to realize you have never seen your face in person, just reflections and pictures

(via cavaan)

— 10 months ago with 419047 notes

#deep thoughts

thebirdsofamerica:

Detail of Plate 21 of The Birds of America by John Audubon, the mockingbird. This plate shows a group of Mockingbirds defending their nest against a rattlesnake looking for its morning omelette. This is Audubon verging on melodrama. As the snake menaces the female with bared fangs, the male jumps on its back and pulls at its eye.

— 10 months ago with 31 notes

#audubon detail

Just Friends (Musiq Soulchild cover) - m4tt278

— 10 months ago

#oldie but goodie