I’m sorry but this photo got me emotional - this moment could have been from any time in the last 500 or more years and not a thing about the composition would have changed. Certainly, for hundreds of years, monks have worked in these gardens and stopped to pet animals in need of scritches. A monk 300 years ago dressed in this same style in these same gardens probably stopped to pet the ancestor of that cat. The only difference between now and then is that this time there was a camera. If you went to any monastery or temple in the world you could find similar scenes playing out.
People stop to pet cats and it has me emotional.
This should be a statue. We need more statues showing kindness and companionship to cats.
Sputnik 2, launched on November 3, 1957, carried the dog Laika, the first living creature to be shot into space and orbit Earth. Laika was a stray dog found on the streets of Moscow. There were no plans to return her to Earth, and she lived only a few hours in orbit.…
“I’m gay” “I’m straight” ok????? I am reaching, but I fall??? And the stars are black and cold???As I stare into the void??? Of a world that cannot hold??? I’ll escape now from that world??? From the world of Jean Valjean??? There is nowhere I can turn??? There is no way to go on????😒😒😒
taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least52 years as a fully grown adult
at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
‘middle age’ is typically considered to be between 45-65
it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
it’s wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
young doesn’t mean peaked. you’re inexperienced in your 20s! you’re still learning and practicing! you’re developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
there are a million things to do in the world, and they don’t vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
All of the above.
Way too many people believing that life stops at 30 … and that fandom spaces should not be inhabited by anyone older than 25 … while forgetting the actors they lust after are older than that and those creating, writing, producing and directing the shows they love are also probably older than they are.
Ageism in insidious and ugly - whereas growing older is a privilege that not everyone gets to experience.
half his life on youtube :( half his life and we got to see it and be a part of it :( amazingphil I love youuuu
19 year old baby with a black and white camera he got from a cereal box :( 19 years later and he just finished his third tour with the love of his life :(
A leopard seal waking up from a nap with it’s own version of bed head.It’s warm body has melted the ice it was sleeping on, wetting down it’s fur on one side.
Source: National Geographic’s Instagram page @natgeo
i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you’ve been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you’re like “this isn’t as cool as i thought :(” but it still is! you just read it too many times
one time when i was 17 i watched an episode of doctor who (tennant years) that made me so inconsolable that i went upstairs to my mom and i sobbed like, “please don’t make fun of me, i’m so upset about a fake person from a tv show right now i can’t stop crying.” she let me sit in her lap and tell her all about the episode and i stopped crying and said i felt so stupid and she started laughing and she said, “i once cried this hard in college over a star trek episode. want to hear about it?” i said yes and then while she told me about the episode she got upset all over again 30 years later and she started crying and then i started laughing about it so hard i started crying again
