INTP Confession #126
intpconfessions:
People who try to help me by spewing “emotion” rhetoric annoy me, and if I try to explain to them that I don’t need that kind of help, they just try harder because they think I’m “closed off”.
I’m not. I just shut down around people, or in situations, when things get overly emotional…
this
leave me the fuck alone
INTP Confession #127
intpconfessions:
I wish someone had told me earlier that it’s normal to want to be alone most of the time. In middle school I stopped hanging out with friends outside of school and my parents made me feel like my behavior meant something was wrong with me. I only learned recently that I’m actually much happier when I’m alone and that having a lot of time to myself is really important for both my personal and social growth.
We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.
by Jeremy Glass, We Can’t Get Lost Anymore (via wendesgray)(Source: her0inchic, via definitelydope)
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
by Charles Bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade)(via ourhomeforeverisouterspace)
beetwick:
i have no interest in following or leading. i feel like vomiting any time i encounter any kind of attempt at manipulation or coercion. the world i find myself in consists of hierarchies that i have no patience for. i’m supposed to submit myself to some form of obligation wherein i am expected to…
All we need to do is give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this. When we stop regarding the unreal as real, then reality alone will remain, and we will be that.
by Ramana Maharshi
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
by Frank Zappa
standing strong against the onslaught of a world that doesn’t understand you
beetwick:
is fucking hard.
i feel like a fish that was born on land, and there are all these crazy ass monkeys around me climbing trees and giving me weird looks. “hey bro ur climbing trees wrong.” shut up monkey bitch i dont want to fucking climb trees and eat shitty bananas, i’m just tryina float around and grub on plankton.