talented assholes

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.— Paracelsus

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books thoughts can transport a person
thoughts of 'what if' take place in an alternate dimension, on another plane of existence, an infinite distance from reality
thoughts of 'if' look to the future, a more imminent unreality, in the realm of imagination but limited by plausibility
and a person's 'ifs' can get smaller and smaller till they are negligible and the mind is trapped in a shrinking prison made of pragmatic 'whys' and 'whens'

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my life is not really my life. it's not a slice of pie to be divided, a room you draw a line through the centre and claim as your own. must remember that a person's existence is only a small glimpse of a much grander picture. beware the possessive pronoun. words shape the way we think

薔薇色のキャンパスライフ

so i guess everyone is graduating

i have traversed many kinds of health

spent the last hour self-diagnosing on wikipedia - turns out i've got just shy of a hundred problems but a female dog isn't one of them

hidden grandiosity

slowly developing schizoid personality disorder

bad gas

hypochondria (n.)
1839, "illness without a specific cause," earlier (1660s) "depression or melancholy without real cause," earlier still (late 14c.) ipocondrie "upper abdomen," from Late Latin hypochondria "the abdomen," from Greek hypokhondria (neuter plural of hypokhondrios), from hypo- "under" + khondros "cartilage". Reflecting ancient belief that the viscera of the hypochondria were the seat of melancholy and the source of the vapors that caused such feelings.

coffee's for closers

i was made for summer nights