People Have Written A Lot Of Touchy-feely Pieces On This Subject But I Thought I’d Get Right To The

dandelion to seed head

“I’m supposed to watch them while Mom takes a nap. If they’re too close to each other, they fight. If they’re too far away from each other, they cry.” (Anzali, Iran)

World War Something, A. Tamboly

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”   ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

fun fact

“khoshekh” is derived from the combination of “кошка”, the russian word for cat, (pronounced “khosh-ka”) and “חושך”, the hebrew word for darkness (pronounced “awh-shekh”)

Barbara Tuchman says the widespread apparently juvenile behavior of medieval Europe should be considered in light of the fact that most of active society was in fact people in their teens and twenties

Which on the one hand is like one of those things that’s obvious once it’s pointed out

But also its funny to think there was a whole historians’ tradition of being like “why were medieval kings so overemotional” until Tuchman clears her throat and goes… “Ahem… Have you ever met an eighteen year old boy” and then everyone’s like “oooooh”

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Popping a Falling Balloon 

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