Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight.


Sometimes it takes a good fall,

to know where you stand.


.

Eventually you forgive people for not knowing about you the things you’ve spent your life keeping from them.

—Robert Brault  (via wolf-cub)

(Source: creatingaquietmind, via wolf-cub)

There are twenty four ribs
that supposedly protect
your heart from damage,
but I swear you know
the precise location of
each 4 cm gap, know
how to nick the arteries
and slip into my circulation,
virtually undetected until
the x-rays show you
lighting up my body
like a christmas tree.

implexa, Infection (via cinisterr)

(Source: memereve, via samohsaurus)

  • Black guy kills some people.
  • News: Criminal.
  • Muslim guy kills some people.
  • News: Terrorist.
  • Latino guy kills some people.
  • News: Criminal.
  • White guy kills some people.
  • News: Mental illness. (lost soul, complicated psyche, quiet loner, misunderstood, frustrated with life, experienced recent, traumatic, life-altering events that set him off; not to mention all the positive descriptors that are attached to him, i.e. intelligent, PhD candidate, honor roll student, etc.)
  • Teenage boys rape a girl
  • News: Potential NFL athletes, popular students, class presidents, funny, intelligent, bright, enthusiastic, handsome, sought after, promising, polite, "poor boys who lost their future dream"
  • Teenage girl is raped:
  • News: What was she wearing? Was she drunk? How much was she drinking? Was her cleavage showing? Well maybe she was asking for it? Well was it really "rape"? She was a slut. Teens today are too sexually active. Did she lead them on?