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"If your parents were poor, where did you get your idea of how rich people live? Where did you get your concept of what success looks like — how successful people dress, or what they drive, or how they decorate their apartment? Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood — the only reason you’ve heard of Armani suits is because the 1980 movie American Gigolo launched the brand. The reason you think smoking is cool is because you’ve seen a thousand handsome, smooth leading men smoke cigarettes. In other words, fictional stories shaped your entire world. You will instinctively reject this idea because you hate the thought that anyone but you has made you who you are. But every single point of data will prove you wrong."

-David Wong (from Cracked.com’s “5 Ways You Don’t Realize Movies Are Controlling Your Brain”)

20 notes - 27 August, 2012

Recently, I have really been into slam poetry and one of my favorite writers is Anis Mojgani.

What I love so much about his writing is that it is so relatable in so many different ways. This one is one of my absolute favorites.

For Those Who Can Still Ride An Airplane For The First Time

Quentin.

“…forgetting what it means to be a person
in a world where egos are measured with tabloids
where automobiles double for morals
where beliefs are like naps
you leave them behind when somebody touches you
and in a place where oil always takes precedence over life
I find myself sitting on a bus watching a small boy
float down like fresh water
carrying a book I used to
asking if I want to share what he sees if only for a little while

and I do

…slow down Quentin and hold what you see just a little while longer

for you are already holding my attention

and in a world of fast faces
I’m looking for God everywhere
trying to figure out a little better
this little thing He made called a man.”

2 notes - 7 August, 2012

Diamond pose or full camel. I’ve heard this pose both ways, but here I am doing it!

2 notes - 7 August, 2012

"My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go"

-Anis Mojgani (via eleventwelvepm)

537 notes - 7 August, 2012

A reminder I made for myself:

There are just too many things going on and its easy to forget how blessed I am and to be happy and excited. I have never been good with change. It overwhelms me and stresses me out…but the realization that things have changed so much is something I need to accept. Its difficult for me, but it is an inevitable part of life. For every door that closes, another one opens and there is so much truth to that.

I need to appreciate the things and the people I have in my life right at this moment…while they are here with me in this stage in my life.

But can I keep these people forever?

~one of those days.

1 note - 7 August, 2012

forming-a-new-life: i love your writing style!!<3

Thank you !!! :) <3

- 7 August, 2012

Currently reading : Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop.

I absolutely loved how he described his mother.

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

-Buddha (via freepeople)

379 notes - 25 June, 2012

newsweek:

In two short decades, the Internet has changed almost everything about the way we live: The way we communicate, the way we shop, the way we read, the way we love, the way we fight, the way we play. So, too, the people shaping and changing the world are a breed apart from the old ruling class. Moguls, Masters of the Universe, military despots…your time has come and gone. The geeks have inherited the earth! And, too, our magazine. Check out our list of the 100 most influential people on the Internet. Or, as we’re calling it, the Digital Power Index.

Oprah’s next chapter

Scott and Kourtney time! My favorite!

1 note - 24 June, 2012