Some Nights Ago I Jolted Awake Around 2 Am. Then I Wrote Down “165” On My Wall And Then I Went To

The personality of each avatar is what the world needed the previous avatar to be.

it be like that sometimes

Photos from the Balkan with no context, part 1: just Slavs being Slavic

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

86 400

Maybe a year ago I decided to calculate exactly how many seconds there are in 24 hours (or a day). It turned out to be 86 400 seconds. Since then I have remembered that and I write it down on my hand each day, as a reminder that I have 86 400 seconds each day to do or change something. It kind of calms me. I kind of want a tattoo of it in the future. Today we had national finals. On one of the questions we had to calculate how many seconds there were in 24 hours. I got sooo happy and still am. I didn’t learn it for nothing after all.

be the surreal nonsense you wish to see in the world

Glass Boy: Woah that’s such a cool tattoo!

Finn: Thanks it’s to remember my brother, Jake.

GB: Oh I’m so sorry! What happened to him?

Finn: Nothing. I just like remembering him.

I'VE HAD AN EPIPHANY

Silent Generation- Denial

Boomers- Anger

Gen X- Bargaining

Millennials- Depression

Gen Z- Acceptance

Ok so that other post really got me thinking and like…no wonder Aang is so freakin quick to offer advice. That isn’t just him trying to be a good friend that’s him carrying on Air Nomad culture. That’s him acting according to how his people have always acted. Only now it’s not appreciated. Only now his advice is akin to “pre-school teachings” and not worth listening to. No wonder he wanted to cry when Katara shouted at him about his “infinite wisdom getting old”. Like ok, obviously being yelled at fucking sucks. But I bet it was mostly because he was raised with the understanding that the monks teachings meant a great deal to the entire world. And now it doesn’t.

He woke up in a time when all those teachings meant nothing to anyone but him.