For whatever reason, probably because I, like you, am a fucking romantic, and you’re smart and beautiful and funny and fun and I think I see something in you I want. I can’t turn away.
More than 8.5 million people have cosmetic procedures in the U.S. per year. This is the end of self mutilation. The average weight of a model is 23% lower than that of an average woman. This is the end of insecurity. Approximately one million men and boys suffer from anorexia. This is the end of self hatred. Clinical depression affects about 16% of the population at least once in their lives. This is the end of hopelessness. As many as 10 million women and girls suffer from an eating disorder. This is the end of self doubt. 80% of 4th grade girls have been on a fad diet. This is the end of marketing disease. Americans spend approximately $12.4 billion on cosmetic procedures per year. This is the end of insanity. By age 21, the average person will have watched 1,000,000 commercials. This is the end of exploitation. Billions of dollars are spent every year to make YOU feel worthless. THIS IS THE END
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
-Frank Herbert, Dune. Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
There's a particular brand of pit that grows in your stomach when you know you're losing control and there's nothing you can do about it. Heavy as granite and moldering...It's the way we're built I suppose. A natural reaction to the unstoppable spin of the earth below. Forever trying to wrest control of life, love, work, and home. And when we can't get control there, we'll fight for it wherever we can. As if we think we could stop the world from spinning just by being mad.
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Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
-Frank Herbert, Dune. Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
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in your stomach when you know you're losing control
and there's nothing you can do about it.
Heavy as granite and moldering...It's the way we're built I suppose.
A natural reaction to the unstoppable spin of the earth below.
Forever trying to wrest control of life, love, work, and home.
And when we can't get control there, we'll fight for it wherever we can.
As if we think we could stop the world from spinning just by being mad.
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