erraticism

Wed Aug 6
“ I woke up today to realize one universal truth. That you are always alone… in your happiest and your most miserable moods, in your strongest and weakest moments, in your thoughts, in your worries, in your actions, in your decisions, in your dreams, in your desires, in your sleep, in birth, in death, in life… and I think I’m beginning to understand that.

Unknown. (via anordinarygirl)

(via thresca)
Sun Jul 27
“ There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time. Edith Wharton
Mon Jul 14

A reminder.

I love you.
(via merde)
(via merde)
Thu Jul 10

Dear Diary: What's been bothering me.

The fact that I’m leaving for college has made me sensitive. I’m not going to see my boyfriend for a long time. Of course, I’ll see him on short breaks, and during the summer. But basically I’m going to be gone for the next four years.

So - the fact that Nate and I don’t talk very much / about anything important, and all the little things he does that annoy me, mixed with my sensitivity/worry built into an insecurity that I am not as funny or smart as his ex, Miranda.

That caused me to be angry with him, without exactly knowing why. I only just figured it out recently.

I am one bothersome obsessive insecure stupid little needy whiny girl.

*sigh*

-Elaine.

Thu Jul 3
napolux: Piracy is not theft

napolux:

Piracy is not theft
Wed Jul 2

The door-close rain dance

unalone:

marco:

The vast majority of the time, the door-close button on elevators doesn’t do anything. This is the case for the elevators in our office building.

When they’re in the lobby, and someone pushes a floor button, the elevators wait for an extra 5 seconds before closing the doors. This is an optimization to accumulate additional passengers — when lots of people are coming in and out of the lobby all the time, you don’t want elevators going up with just one person in them.

Inevitably, people start getting impatient and hitting the door-close button after about 4 seconds. It doesn’t do anything, but the doors close a second or two later regardless, so people think they’ve affected the outcome, and they push the door-close button again the next time. If they push the button too soon, and the elevator waits a few more seconds before closing the doors, the people assume that it’s just being slow today or they didn’t hit the button hard enough.

They never consider the possibility that their action is not related to the result.

This is why superstition works. Animals learn it, too. “If I perform this action, I get this result.” It takes a more advanced or analytical mind to consider performing a test: “If I take no action, will I get this result anyway?”

I secretly think less of door-close people in the elevator.

Mon Jun 30
unalone: From The Urf.

unalone:

From The Urf.
love is everywhere
“ True love is not measured in hugs and kisses, but in struggles and fears, and those who can work though those…they possess true love Adam Murphy