Make me believe you.

Make me believe you

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Depression is not something you can just buy a Hallmark card for. You can’t just mail one to someone with a prewritten greeting and tell them that you hope they feel better, but they should just get over it. Depression is the equivalent of being buried in a thirty-foot hole and having twenty shovels at your convenience, at arms-length away, but being too exhausted or indifferent to use even one of them to dig yourself out.
Depression isn’t like the weather; an umbrella can’t stop the storms from coming. They’ll just find another way in instead. The most inappropriate thing to do for someone with depression is to tell them that it will get better. That’s scripted bullshit and you probably know it. You don’t have to be perfect; you don’t have to hold their entire heart.
You just have to hold their hand.
(via writingsforwinter)

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vanillish:

by-way-of-the-green-line:

“Meet the real life mermaid who swims with jellyfish and can hold her breath under water for up to five minutes

Linden Wolbert travels the world as a full time professional mermaid and uses her custom-made 6ft tail to propel her through the water.

The 32-year-old freediver and model can swim to depths of 115ft and uses her skills to promote ocean conservation and education.

Linden, from Los Angeles, California, said: ‘I grew up as a water baby. My parents are both competitive swimmers.

‘I always looked forward to going to the ocean for our summer vacation. I had a magnetism to the water.

‘I’ve kind of always been a freediver but didn’t realise the sport existed until ten years ago. Shortly thereafter, I when began training.

‘Free diving is 70 per cent psychological. You have to be very calm and at ease in the water.’”

she’s living out life the way she truly wants I wish more people were brave enough to do this

(via something-quiet)

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furbyhater:

Hip Hop by Joshua Bennett

“Remember that your heart is just a drum machine,

and that we are all hands in the same crowd,

all waves on the same frequency

See we are hip hop, I am hip hop…” 

(via thestriversrow)