You better watch out, buddy – I have extremely unusual life experiences which I mistakenly believe are universal, and I’m about to misinterpret your post in ways you can’t even imagine.
this is such a rude and obviously targeted thing to make me, a man with a problem, read
will never get over the fact that we can love people despite there being countries between us. we can miss people we’ve never seen in person. we can connect and bond over hundreds of things without ever needing to be in each others physical presence. we can have half the globe between us and love never falters.
Cat’s Eye/ Sad Janet / Your Glass Head against the Brick Parade of Now Whats: A Beautiful, Nice Poem / The Law of Lines / Person / Earthlings / Convenience Store Woman / Alone With Other People / The Girls Are All So Nice Here
abandonment issues are sooooo funny. “i’m scared people will leave me so i push them away and leave them first to avoid being hurt” girl the prophecy is self fulfilling!!! the sabotage is coming from within!!! you forgot about the cycle!!!!!!!!!
Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson
To speak, even in brokenness, is a deep, inexorable need of the human heart, and the final goal of the apophatic way. To make response—reaching by fragile faith through the dark cloud of unknowing—is the most profound impulse of our humanity.
There are no guarantees; yet in that nothingness one may discover, like Dionysius the Areopagite, the “dazzling obscurity of the secret silence outshining all brilliance with the intensity of its darkness.” This is a language of mystics, perhaps too playful in its paradoxes. It can be spoken too glibly by those who have not experienced pain, but it points, at last, beyond the outer edges of the theologian’s quest to the place where all efforts to know are absorbed in a love surpassing all knowing.
Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
it is so disgusting watching other white people reassure each other about taking breaks from social media and “prioritizing your mental health” when literally the one thing Palestinians are asking for more than anything is that people do not look away from what is happening to them
shockingly on the no reading comprehension site, people have no reading comprehension
did i say “fuck you and your mental health” or did i say that it’s disgusting to watch white people reassuring each other about not paying attention to a genocide being enacted in real time (with direct contributions from their own governments in many cases) when that’s exactly what the victims are asking for?
sometimes bad things happen and you will feel bad about it! that is normal and does not mean that you should just ignore them happening! of course you feel sad, it’s fucking sad! of course you feel angry, it’s fucking horrific and unjust! none of this means you should should look away to remain comfortable and undisturbed
also no one expects you to ignore your own life and be glued to the news 24/7 so stop pretending this is what people mean by “pay attention”
article from 2022, just to put things into perspective:
Over half of Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip have had suicidal thoughts in the past year, according to a report published by Save the Children on Wednesday. […]
Around 55 percent of children have contemplated suicide, while three out of five children have self-harmed, Save the Children revealed. […]
A report from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor last year found that nine out of 10 children in Gaza suffered from some form of conflict-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). […]
Around 59 percent of caregivers documented an increase in youths experiencing difficulty in speech, language and communication, while 96 percent said they themselves felt unhappy and constantly anxious.
“The children we spoke to for this report described living in a perpetual state of fear, worry, sadness and grief, waiting for the next round of violence to erupt, and feeling unable to sleep or concentrate,” said Jason Lee, director for Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territories.
“The physical evidence of their distress – bedwetting, loss of ability to speak or to complete basic tasks – is shocking and should serve as a wakeup call to the international community.”
i am often broadly pretty negative / cynical about the impact of the internet on society but i do have to say that there is something very good to be said about how deeply it undermines the ability of the bourgeoisie to control media narratives in the way they could since basically the beginning of mass communications
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