Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.
My own commencement speaker, who shall remain nameless, began with a lame joke about how these speeches only come in two varieties: Short and bad. This…
Jeff Buckley singing Hallelujah did not make me cry today…but this did.
16650 And that’s the most frustrating thing about depression. It isn’t always something you can fight back against with hope. It isn’t even something — it’s nothing. And you can’t combat nothing. You can’t fill it up. You can’t cover it. It’s just there, pulling the meaning out of everything. That being the case, all the hopeful, proactive solutions start to sound completely insane in contrast to the scope of the problem.
It would be like having a bunch of dead fish, but no one around you will acknowledge that the fish are dead. Instead, they offer to help you look for the fish or try to help you figure out why they disappeared.
(x)You know when you read something that’s so accurate that you don’t know how to words?
Yeah.
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Neal Shusterman, Bruiser (via simply-quotes)
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- Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance (via chili-pepper-3009)
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| Me: | I WILL WRITE TODAY! |
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| Me: | I HAVE NOVEL IDEAS! |
| Me: | I WILL BE PUBLISHED! |
| Me: | I swear it! |
| Me: | Today, I will actually write. |
| Me: | This time. |
| Me: | I swear, this time. |
| Me: | ..... |
| Me: | ...... |
| Me: | ........... |
| Me: | I should go on tumblr for a minute. |
| Me: | So, your personality is gonna be like this... |
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| Character: | lol, okay +does the complete opposite of that+ |
