the fact that the real world could have involved dragons, unicorns, magic, time travel and insane adventures but instead has things like taxes is why i read so much
This lizard shoots blood out of its eyes to deter predators
This photo was inspired by David Talley’s image "True Self". His image is important to me and relates a lot to me at this time in my life.
In his image, he is trying to spread the message to be yourself and nothing else. Don’t ever try and be something you are not. Be your True Self.
That is something I have too began to realize. I haven’t been my true self. I’ve been something I am not and I am now in the process of changing that.
(I guess you can call it growing up).
This photo is a representation of that process. I have finally figured out who I really am. I know what I want in life and am taking the steps necessary to get that.
To do this, I basically have to begin to destroy who I was in order to become who I AM. I have to shatter the things of the past and let in room for the things of the future.
Sometimes, you have to break yourself to make yourself.
Sometimes, you have to break yourself to make yourself.
They don’t need you all up in their shit. They don’t need you typing a single letter into the YouTube search bar and getting prompted to go on a journey through all of the “announcing to the parents we’re pregnant/engaged” happy-cry videos that they enjoy watching…
In this gut-wrenching talk, Sergeant Andrew Chambers shares the haunting story of his time in Iraq and the tough transition home that landed him in jail. It’s a powerful testimony to the struggle our soldiers face when they come home, and the tragic ways that they can be denied the help they need.
For anyone looking to support a veteran, we encourage you to heed Chambers’s advice: “Find a veteran and listen to his story. A lot of us just need somebody to talk to.”
Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato.
The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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— We Originated in the Belly of a Star, NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012. (via thinksquad)
Divorce yourself from this idea right now, author. While I’m sure it is the narrative you’ve been presented with your entire life, I’m here to tell you that it isn’t true. Women do find building up muscles in the upper body more difficult than men, but since power does not come from the arms, it’s…
