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Ross Buswell • atmospherics

Gripping my bathroom sink repeating I am not afraid to keep on living I am not afraid to walk this world alone

“ . . . the imperative of the right is: ‘Be a person and respect others as persons.’” (Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Section 36)

Jaakko Pallasvuo / David Lynch (The Angriest Dog In The World)

When you become 20 something, you have to forgive yourself or you will never grow up. You have to forgive yourself for everything and learn from it.

Dolly Parton holding a kitten

hm sometimes i wish i was one of those people who moves thousands of miles away and never looks back and has a ton of adventures unmoored from their past and where they’re from but i can’t help looking back and i’m deeply, fervently defined by every person, thing, or place i’ve ever loved

girls really are expected to concentrate and work on a laptop when it is connected to the internet and all the shiny little images and videos that are always luring them in are right there....

when you were younger, you were often told off for being too sensitive. as if you could control it. as if you, taking your own pain seriously, as if that was the problem. it didn't matter that you were being bullied - and it never mattered if the bully was your parent. it just mattered that you reacted to it.

the other day someone asked why you always seem to take things in stride. you don't know how to say - i don't, i am just not allowed to be a human where others could see it happen.

you watch other people have emotions in public and are often stunned by them. you are always walking carefully around your own, knowing that at some point you could slip and start weeping through your sunday evening apropos of nothing. you're not allowed to feel big things. when you feel big things, you're a messy, annoying person. it's ugly when you cry. it's uncomfortable for everyone.

the other day, you were relating another story to your therapist. you paused for a moment and then let out that little bark of laughter - it shouldn't have hurt, but i guess it did!

you promise that you're not upset about it. you're never upset about anything. you just pass through this world - ghostlike. numb. promising others - oh! i've changed a lot since i was a kid.

i get it now

(Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction, last paragraph of section 22 to first paragraph of section 24) Freedom comes through the deep understanding of one’s subjectivity in relation to universal existence. Freedom is one’s awareness of interdependence which has limitless scope.