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fall is near

the summer was mild. hauntingly parallel to the recent months i’ve spent surviving here. not living, just surviving. i always remember the days that i’ve lived, and wish i could forget the days that i’ve survived. summer here is usually spent escaping the heat, finding a cool place of repose. but this summer was different. each day was unremarkably indistinguishable from the next. each morning trapped in a cycle of monotony. alarm, work, rinse, lather, repeat. there was always an adventure that came along with dodging the summer’s intensity. but, the heat was gone. the spark was gone. my spark was gone. and with no spark, comes no heat. no fire. no passion. and if you’re not passionate, what do you live for? i sometimes get lost in the idea that i am no longer living for a passion, but yet the idea of a passion that i once had. every prospect of a viable spark is quickly extinguished by something, or someone, and the wheel continues spinning. but this wheel seems to have become a sphere that i’ve trapped myself in. and with every step, i continue to thrust the sphere forward. the momentum grows and i’m struggling to keep up with my own feet racing below me.

fall is near. and i don’t know if i’m referring to the season.

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practice contentment

i had a very long conversation with a very wise man last night, and i took something away from the conversation that is very important.

practice contentment.

now.

the idea isn’t to be content with where you are, but rather to be content no matter where you are. if you’re constantly unhappy because you’re searching for bigger and better things, when you get to where you thought you wanted to be, you may continue to always want more, causing you to always be unhappy. instead, find happiness now. work towards your goals. but, no matter where life leads, keep that happiness with you.

today, i’m practicing contentment. it feels nice.

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a long weekend

a simple photo. you can’t tear your eyes from it. the person you planned on spending the rest of your life with. now, you can’t even remember the way their lips felt. memories faded away like waves receding back into the body of water from which they came. you’re unable to recall the color of the eyes that stared so deeply back at you. a hand that fit so perfectly in yours. the smallest of things flash through your mind, but everything else bleeds together and slips away as you struggle to relive a time when you felt whole. you forget their smell, then their hips, their skin, then their lips. all at once, it is nothing but a fleeting distant thought. a spool of destroyed 8mm collecting dust on a shelf. a long weekend. a fond memory of a place that you can never revisit.

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House Where Modern and Rustic Interior Designs are Mixed – Vorstadt 14 | DigsDigs

i wanted to be an architect since i was about 8 years old. and i originally was in school for architecture. so, my love of architecture has led me to follow a couple architecture blogs. quite frequently i save posts, and i keep an archive of things i like. i would never normally reblog anything, but this, this right here, this is what i want. just this. nothing more. i love this. Zoom Image

micasaessucasa:

House Where Modern and Rustic Interior Designs are Mixed – Vorstadt 14 | DigsDigs

i wanted to be an architect since i was about 8 years old. and i originally was in school for architecture. so, my love of architecture has led me to follow a couple architecture blogs. quite frequently i save posts, and i keep an archive of things i like. i would never normally reblog anything, but this, this right here, this is what i want. just this. nothing more. i love this.

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technology: we are either going to kill ourselves or live long enough to create something that knows we should be killed
Parker Quinn

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beyond mountains, there are mountains
Haitian Proverb

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i am a part of this city

a few days ago i uploaded some new photos to my flickr account. when i came to the photo above, not giving it much thought, i named it “i am a part of this city”. over the course of past few days those words have resonated inside of me. for the first time since moving to los angeles, i love the city i live in. i love it for everything that it is, the good and the bad. for the first time i feel like i am a part of this city. that this city is more whole because i’m a part of it. and that i no longer need this city, but that it needs me. los angeles feels like home. 

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things i think about

if time travel was possible, there are two logical options: 1.) there is one universe. no matter what events occur, it was, is, and is always, going to occur infinitely. …or… 2.) there are an infinite amount of parallel universes with an infinite amount of possible outcomes.

why aren’t all tables and chairs constructed with 3 legs? they would never wobble.

how would you describe color to a blind person?

we have, give or take, 75 years on this planet and we are pretty much bound to it and have no other options. so, why doesn’t everybody spend their lives exploring the ONLY place we’re allowed to be? why isn’t there some sort of worldwide travel conglomerate community organization that just allows people to travel non-stop?

remember when you were a kid, and you found out what a “light year” was? then, someone came along and told you if traveled at the speed of light for one year you’d come back and it would be like 100 years in the future? whatever the number was, it’s mathematically impossible. it would be one year. i would really like people to stop misinforming children of this non-fact.

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The only constant is change.
Heraclitus