welcome to my ted talk: today's topic is my roman empire

the top of Mount Everest is limestone

Whenever life gets too heavy for me I always remind myself that the top of Mount Everest is Limestone. So the highest point on the planet was not only once the bottom of the ocean but it was the bottom of the ocean so long ago that it spent millions of years as that calcifying dead organisms to stone. My problems just don't seem big after that

the crains siblings as stages of grief

the haunting of hill house (2018)

something i read on tiktok

"sometimes when the sunlight hits it looks exactly the same way it did when I was 16 and for a moment I'm her again... then something shifts and all I'm left with is the nostalgia of how things used to be"

the myth of Icarus and Daedalus

stoicism

accept what you can't control and move on

the egg theory

every time you talk to another person, you are actually speaking to another version of you. Every time you help someone out, you are helping another version of you. Everytime you exploit or victimize someone else, you are only bringing yourself pain.

Saint Lucy gouging out her own eyes so she wouldn't get married

The story goes that she gouged out her own eyes so she wouldn't be forced to marry a guy who was obsessed with her eyes. She put it on a plate and gave it to him :)

music

musical frequencies, beats and song lyrics influence people more than witchcraft, but it is so natural that no one notices they are being influenced

theory of deja vu

it's not a memory from a past life, but just a split second where all your alternate universe selves are experiencing the same thing at the same time. the timelines are just overlapping for a second and they're experience a moment of connection.

Stephen Fry talking shit about god

"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?"