“If You Want To Be Happy, You Have To Be Happy On Purpose. When You Wake Up, You Can’t Just Wait

“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Fuck you my child is fine.” Your child is emotionally attached to unstable social outcast characters.

It's my 4 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

what?

John James Audubon. Gyrfalcon. c. 1835-1836. New-York Historical Society. Image and data from the University of Georgia Libraries.

everyday i find something cool in the internet!

Jim Goldberg via

“Hyderabad–India, 2008.”

IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOME OF YOU ARE UNAWARE OF MY SOULMATE

BEHOLD!!!!

THIS IS MOO DENG HER NAME MEANS BOUNCING PORK SHES A BABY PYGMY HIPPO AT A THAI ZOO AND SHE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT

GIVE HER LOVE

(pics courtesy of her trainers. thank you @yellowwwcrayon for introducing her to me)

If you think people used to willingly stare off into the distance before smartphones, my dad told me he had this psychology assignment when he was in college in the 80s which was basically

Go to a restaraunt by yourself and eat a meal without a newspaper or journal or anything else to keep you occupied and then write a report about it

Which tells me that this was a way for a professor to inflict psychological torture on their students and that people used to bring little things with them to keep them entertained. Shown by those old pictures of everyone in a trolley reading a newspaper with one hand.

Frankly I think that the human brain has been craving smart phone forever. Perhaps we use it too much at times but if this was 1985 we also wouldn’t be talking to people. We’d just be looking at newspaper or drawing stuff on notepad instead. And the old people would all be shaking their fists about how kids spend too much time looking at that damn TV because yes this discourse has been going on long before smart phone