joshishollywood:

”…You don’t just get up. You have to crack open your eyes, and then realize you are late. You didn’t sleep well the night before. You have to crawl out of bed, and then you have to make your self something to eat before you can do anything else, because if you don’t, you can’t take your medicine, and if you don’t take your medicine you might as well give up all your spoons for today and tomorrow too.”

A long but important read on living with illnesses and/or disabilities - neither of which, to my knowledge, I suffer from. But it’s good to educate yourself, I think. This theory gets referenced a lot without much explanation (and understandably so, as the people referencing it are familiar with it and this isn’t a bad summer movie where everybody spouts expository information at every chance they get just in case) and it may seem to some people like it’s insignificant or some sort of catchphrase.

It’s, er, not.

(Source: badcgijosh, via disgustinghuman)

white-coat:

Many people will readily admit that drowning is one of their top fears. The thought of struggling for air only to aspire cold water creates a feeling of panic in most, while people who have actually drowned and were revived claim there’s something oddly calm about it. Regardless of how you feel…

(via white-coat-deactivated20111012-)

nursling:

“Health is not a commodity. Risk factors are not disease. Aging is not an illness. To fix a problem is easy, to sit with another suffering is hard. Doing all we can is not the same as doing what we should. Quality is more than metrics. Patients cannot see outside their pain, we cannot see in,…

(Source: NPR, via nursling-deactivated20120328)

iamkiam:

There are no cool kids.
we are simply here
baring our selves, our bruised pasts and egos
our blind futures
We breathe
we drink tea
eat breakfast
and break down a pose into innumerably variable steps
We pour water down our nostrils to quiet our overactive minds
just long enough, perhaps
to get a…