The worst thing about depression, to me, is its inherent narcissism. Narcissism is stupid for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it makes it so damn hard to have empathy for other human beings. When you are really truly depressed, you know you will stay that way forever, the same way you know you were never once happy in your life before.
Not being able to empathasize with other people makes it difficult to form relationships with other people, which is frustrating because depression isn’t something that can be battled alone:it is bigger than you, if only because it alters your sense of size.
Most depressed people don’t want to be narcissists, or unintentionally hurtful, but its hard to find the way out. In the end, you have to do the seemingly paradoxical and hugely difficult task of loving yourself first. Only then can you feel safe enough to admit your flaws, and to connect with other people.
A depressed person forgets, as I have forgotten, that there are millions of people who have been depressed and beaten it. No matter how alone in your pain you feel, you have a lot more in common with people youve never even met right now. And there are people who have been where you are, and come out the other side.
Ask them how they did it. They will tell you.
Feminism, politics, biology, I don't even know.
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I’m not too fond of snakes, but I can’t seem to take the Blunthead Tree Snake seriously.
That snake has obviously held its breath too long and just then let it all out.
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I feel the need to post something that isn’t incredibly depressing.
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… Tolkien’s own misadventures with his first automobile, purchased in 1932, were the source of some of Mr. Bliss’s escapades. Tolkien was known to accelerate across busy intersections crying out ‘Charge ‘em and they scatter!’ and once knocked down a stone wall during a family vacation.
—Beyond The Hobbit, Janet Brennan Croft
I give you John “Road Rage” Tolkien
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*corrects your grammar because i have no response to your valid points*
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Unraveling the Origins of Bioluminescent Fungi
by Liz Kimbrough
Aristotle (384–322 BC) reported a mysterious light, distinct from fire, emanating from decaying wood. Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) mentioned feasting on a glowing, sweet fungus found on trees in France and, in the late fifteenth century, a Dutch consul gave accounts of Indonesian peoples using fungal fruits to illuminate forest pathways. Bioluminescent fungi have intrigued generations of observers, and a handful of scientists still carry that torch of curiosity, answering questions about how and why these mushrooms glow.
Bioluminescence, light emitted by living organisms, has been verified in only 71 of the roughly 100,000 described species in the Kingdom Fungi. These 71 species belong to four distantly related lineages occurring throughout the world, with greatest abundance in the tropics. Conspicuous temperate species include: the Jack-o-Lantern mushrooms of Europe and the North America (Omphalotus illudens, O. olearius), the ghost fungus of Australia and Asia (O. nidiformis), the moon night mushroom of Japan (O. japonicus), and various species of honey mushrooms whose mycelium causes “foxfire”—the phenomenon of glowing wood noticed by Aristotle…
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photos by Cassius V. Stevani, IQ-USP, Brazil
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