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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
This is exactly what today’s science-based mindfulness movement is about!
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha
[My thoughts]
i had to wash them out
i wove a linen cloth out of my hair
soaked it in a bowl of mint and lemon water
carried it in my mouth as i climbed
up my braid to the back of my head
down on my knees i began to wipe my mind clean
Rupi Kaur, “Self-Love”
I can see you’re scared of your emotions
I can see you’re hoping not hopeless
So why can’t you show me? Why can’t you show me?
I can see you’re looking for distractions
I can see you’re tired of the acting
So why can’t you show meWho are you in the dark?
Camila Cabello - In the Dark
Well if you don’t like girls that are stronger than you,
And if you don’t like girls that are faster than you,
And if you don’t like girls that are smarter than you,
Well then you might not like me
Brynn Elliott, “Might not like me”
I couldn’t utter my love when it counted
Ah, but I’m singing like a bird ‘bout it now
…Remember me, love,
when I am reborn
As a shrike to your sharp
and glorious thorn.
Shrike, Hozier
She looked right through me
And I turned to stone
Oh Medusa, Medusa
I’ve been here alone
“Medusa,” Kailee Morgue
It’s like I’m two people, and one of them is watching me all the time.
Henry Miller
Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says ‘Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed’ – because he likes you anyways. He’ll tolerate your junk.
E. Lockhart
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Season transitions in Cable Girls
Can we talk about the changes they’ve thrown at us between Cable Girls seasons??? [SPOILER WARNING]
They’re wild, to say the least, and too fast, in my opinion. Though I’ve kept watching, numerous people have told me they left the show following the transition into S2. They justifiably couldn’t handle it.
A breakdown of the S1-S2 & S2-S3 transitions:
The Season 2-3 transition will have the most details, since it’s freshest on my mind.
During the Season 1-2 transition they failed to show us how it went down after Lidia sold the blueprints to the machine. We come back to a phone company owned by an Argentinian we’ve never met & Magda has become bitey and confident overnight (sure, characters and people develop but usually we get to see them do so… this was a jarring difference and somewhat saddening for those of us who found she changed too much/had fallen in love with her little quirks & mannerisms from before).
Somehow Lidia didn’t get booted from the company throughout all of this (they may have explained this but, again, so many things happened quickly/weren’t shown).
During the Season 2-3 transition We didn’t get to see Carlos and Lidia fall back together, which would’ve been satisfying for viewers to see. (How did she break it to Francisco??) Francisco, who’s been pining for this girl since pubescence, is now walking Lidia down the aisle to another man. Okay. (At least he slides out for a smoke during their vows.) For some reason, Carlos does not immediately become outraged at his mother’s presence at their wedding. They try to justify this by saying that many months have passed since The Attempted Forced-Abortion Incident but, again, the audience hasn’t gotten to see these months. Besides, even if he can now stand being in the same room as them, doesn’t mean his wife is. She tried to kill Lidia’s unborn baby, for goodness sake!
Lidia has already given birth, and one is supposed to become attached to baby Eva immediately. We don’t really get to do that, since she gets kidnapped before the first episode even hits the halfway-mark.
Carlota’s dad crashes the wedding to apologize to her. She doesn’t question why his heart has suddenly changed, or why he’s doing this now. She just hugs him and rolls with it. Ignoring that this is a complete 180 for his character, shouldn’t this have merited (any) build-up and a proper scene? He promptly dies a hero during the wedding fire.
Marga sees her shy husband flirting with a woman on the street, and doesn’t recognize this as completely out of character for him?? More realistically, she would’ve had questions. Marga would’ve taken it as a personal affront and asked Pablo how he could ever do such a thing to her. Instead, she gives him a standard-level reprimand and says she “won’t stand for it.” Then we find out the flirty man was actually Pablo’s twin brother.
EDIT: Also, was anyone else thrown off by Carlos’s willingness to give up looking for his baby?? If her body hasn’t been found AND there is no explanation as to where she went, how can you just give up?!????? Why is Lidia doing this alone?!
Carlos’s mom has somehow bought him back the blueprints Lidia sold (what), so we know a lot more change is to come.
Hopefully it slows down because episode 1 alone was a tizzy…