Living Is An Art

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   trumpetnista:

   rarely-pure-never-simple:

   thecornercoffeeshoppe:

   hickshannary:

   small-and-misunderstood:

   Saw this somewhere else and felt the need to post it cause no one else ever really tells you this stuff

   My mom never really noticed. She noticed when she was breast feeding my little brother and blood started coming out instead of milk. 

   My mom said she felt and saw a little lump in the shower. She was lucky enough she found it at stage 2

   My mom had a mammogram. The radiologist thought the spots were just regular calcium deposits. 

   Turns out it was triple negative breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nods. Mastectomy, radiation and chemo saved her life.

   This could SAVE a life.

   Signal BOOST and pass it on. I had a breast cancer scare before (luckily it was just scar tissue…) and information like this kept me calm and collected at the doc’s.

   (via cottoncandyfro)
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   distraction:

   perfae:

   ilymorgannn:

   slutstatus:

   essentric:

   w-a-v-e:

   I can’t believe this nearly has 200,000 notes, I remember when I posted this. It just comes to show how many people agree…

   ^almost 300,000 omg

   i’ve reblogged this at least 10 times

   fuck yes

   Over 300,000

   every girl needs to see this

   Finallyyy

   (Source: breathing-drugss, via fittestofthebitches)
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   naturalherstory:

   What screws us up most in life… ❥ is that little picture in our heads of how it “should” be

   This…I was reminded again today.
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   "There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

   - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via creatingaquietmind)

   ….well that shuts down my valid excuse for traveling to run away from adulthood. 😑

   (Source: the-healing-nest, via creatingaquietmind)

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   "Stop trying to ‘get it together’. The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing up is that soon as we’re adults, as soon as we’re in college, finish college, get that job, have that steady income, find that someone special, ‘find ourselves’, find that perfect house, get that retirement fund, have those children, everything will fall into place. Here’s a secret: it won’t. Every new development in your life, good or bad, big or small, will come with its own very special set of challenges. The sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be."

   - Unknown (via creatingaquietmind)

   (Source: onlinecounsellingcollege, via creatingaquietmind)

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   1nfluenced:

   Nichole is very close to everyone i know… Please reblog… she could be anywhere

   reblog

   reblog

   reblog

   (via naturallypolished)
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   dave-vriska:

   glasmond:

   But sweetheart, you did not end this comic.

   Here, let me help you.
   
   
   
   The love (as well as the hate) you give will always come back to you at some point in your life.
   Believe me, I know exactly what I am talking about.

   THAT IS THE CUTEST RESPONSE TO THIS EVER AND IT MADE ME TEARY EYED

   *moment of silence*

   (Source: zenami, via whyvoneenee)
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   livingsimplistically:

   ::Motivation Mondays:: The less complex road in life is the easiest traveled, while it allows you to still appreciate some of the scenery along the way. Life doesn’t need to be complicated if we choose. #motivationmondays #inspiration #simplequotes #livinsimplistically #simpleliving #life #living #instaquote #mydesire
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   thepeoplesrecord:

   The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
   May 7, 2013

   Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

   Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

   Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

   It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

   Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

   The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

   Source

   Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

   I don’t normally go for the issues of race but this is worth sharing.

   (via whyvoneenee)
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    typewrittenword:

    Rob Ryan

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  Dope. ❥

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