TERKADERK

“Son, you speak Thai pretty well, but you could take out the awkward from your accent?”

Father Dearest

I literally almost bought a 30 dollar pillow because a really attractive guy was on the picture.

Who am I

Weekend, directed by Andrew Haigh (2011)

Can I just say how hard it is to find a post related to a movie called Weekend without scrolling through how everyone is loving-life/ugh-so-bored dialogues?

Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne v4

IT’S MAKING PROGRESS. THE ACTUAL GAME. I’M CRYING

(Source: studyroomkerfuffle)

People Watching

There are middle aged women taking pictures of themselves on their iphones. I thought this was strange and silly until I imagined them as teenagers, to which it seems perfectly normal and bothersome.

It’s interesting that for these mothers it’s almost endearing, but when an actual young person acts like, well, a young person it’s pretty annoying.

It’s like, we expect everyone to continuously act older than they are, and we enjoy it. We call teens young adults to give them a sense of maturity. Calling an actual teenager a teen is nearly insulting. Only by acting noticeably younger than our age do we find it endearing, reminiscent of youth.

And of course acting out an age is completely subjective, but what does this say about what we are right now? We are expected to be older than we are, then to counteract those expectations we act incredibly young. In this model, we never truly learn our age, barely scratching the surface after we’ve outgrown it.

Maybe this is a personal issue, but at 13 I was expected to be able to perform myself at a high school maturity. Once high school hit„ we are adults and are expected to be at a college, or whatever you do after high school, mindset. And now in college, I have to be able to handle myself as an actual adult that can professionally interact with anyone. And yet I find myself watching cartoons I’ve watched as a kid and playing old nostalgic video games rather than new ones.

I don’t even know what it is to act my age. What is a college student maturity? Am I supposed to be doing more drugs and having more sex?

If so, I can’t wait to be older so I can acceptably do what I should be doing now

Because of the weird proportions that bulldogs have, they have to learn how to flip back over themselves without the owner’s help, otherwise they will never know how to flip over in the future when they need it. [A]

(Source: sebastiansmythearchives)

This made me incredibly uncomfortable as a child

sonder

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.