be(r)nice.

voy a cambiar vidas.

i write a lot. i have this little notebook that i carry with me everywhere.

porque este mundo es increíble.

i love tumblrs. because people these days are so quick to judge and if you happen upon this site, you get a whole different perspective of someone you thought you knew.

because sometimes we don't speak aloud all we want to say. and written words preserve the moment's intensity.

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”
—
Vita Sackville-West

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February 1

im staying up to watch a documentary hm

they’re so interesting

1/11/12
Haiti slow to recover from quake
Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed about 300,000 people. President Michel Martelly in a report from earlier this week said that 800,000 Haitians are living without electricity, 500,000 can’t read or write, and 8 out 10 live on less than $2 a day. Though half of the rubble has been cleared and reconstruction has begun, Haiti has a long way to go in its recovery effort. Collected here are images made available by wire services leading up to the anniversary. — Lloyd Young
A Haitian man sells used shoes in Port-au-Prince amidst earthquake damage on Jan. 9, 2012. According to the UN some 50 percent of the rubble left by the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake still litters the Haitian capital. (Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images)

I think it’s interesting how people were so quick to donate to Haiti right after the earthquake and people prayed for them and donated supplies. But two years later they’re still in terrible condition but there’s been so many other natural disasters or just huge problems in other countries and the attention shifts so quickly.

1/11/12

Haiti slow to recover from quake

Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed about 300,000 people. President Michel Martelly in a report from earlier this week said that 800,000 Haitians are living without electricity, 500,000 can’t read or write, and 8 out 10 live on less than $2 a day. Though half of the rubble has been cleared and reconstruction has begun, Haiti has a long way to go in its recovery effort. Collected here are images made available by wire services leading up to the anniversary. — Lloyd Young

A Haitian man sells used shoes in Port-au-Prince amidst earthquake damage on Jan. 9, 2012. According to the UN some 50 percent of the rubble left by the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake still litters the Haitian capital. (Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images)

I think it’s interesting how people were so quick to donate to Haiti right after the earthquake and people prayed for them and donated supplies. But two years later they’re still in terrible condition but there’s been so many other natural disasters or just huge problems in other countries and the attention shifts so quickly.

Tourists visit ice sculptures during the testing period of the 13th Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival officially launched January 5, 2012. (Sheng Li/Reuters)

A man yawns as he makes red lanterns with other workers for the upcoming Chinese new year at a workshop in Yaxi village on December 27, 2011. (Associated Press) #

Scuba divers perform a dragon dance at the Shanghai aquarium to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Dragon on January 20, 2012. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images) #

i wonder what it’s like to celebrate chinese new year in china

it’d be on such a larger scale than in chinatown

WHERE IS MY SUBSCRIPTION OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

WHY HAS IT NOT ARRIVED IN THE MAIL YET
also
comparative government is so interesting
finally we’re not focusing on the US

also

i’m going to find some man or something like mr sandler

because he went backpacking across europe with his girlfriend

and in so many places

like hungary, the locals come up to you and offer you their place to stay and to take you around for a really comparably small fee

and it sounds sketchy but sandler said it’s just a bunch of american paranoia and they’re actually so hospitable

and i didn’t even have mr sandler

but i want to find someone like him

and we will go places

remappingmysoul:

orlaylod:

“There’s a plane leaving for anywhere you want right now, and in an hour, and in a day, and in a year. You can get out whenever you want, it’s comforting I think.”

it’s not comforting, because then i think about how i have to pay for that plane ticket. and then i think about where im going to get that money — by getting a job, right? it’s not easy to just find a good paying job.. it’d be smart for me to finish my education. and then by the time i get an education and find a job while supporting myself, ill realize that all this time has passed.

so it’s nerve wracking, thinking that no matter how free-spirited i am, i will never free from all this shit. because money is just so so so important.

how depressing. all these planes, but you can’t fly just yet.

also by the time you (we) finish (y)our education we’ll be like pressured to find jobs to support ourselves and jobs kind of suck you into another cycle
and then we’ll have like a family or whatever and settle down
too busy trying to pay the bills and raising kids to “see the world”
idk

this will not happen to me (isn’t that what everyone says)