Fuck gravity...I want to fly.

werethechemists:

backlessblackdress:

morganfreeman:

growingup:

Unless you aspire to be a musician, I’ve never understood people who say that a certain band member or something is their hero in life, and they really mean it. Just like… why. Okay, they’re a musician. They can sing or play an instrument really well. Omg u guise, life hero~~~~. As if millions of people can’t do those things just as well or better. Like, people who say Pete Wentz or Oli Sykes or Alex Gaskarth is their hero. What the actual fuck. Why? Why would they be your hero? What have they ever done that you see as heroic? If it’s a person who you look up to because they’re so strong and respectable, like Andrew McMahon who overcame cancer, and that person also happens to be a musician, that’s different. But just saying someone is your hero because they can do their job really well doesn’t make sense unless you also want to do that job.

Ohh okay.

Why would it matter, anyway? My hero is my hero because of the way I connect to them. Maybe I don’t know them personally, but the person they are is what I look up to. It’s how they speak, and think, and act that makes them me look up to them. So, maybe they didn’t overcome cancer, or save someone’s life, but why should that stop me from looking up to them?

exactly ^

This pisses me off. A lot. This is like saying that the only thing any of the aforementioned people do is play their instrument. Pete Wentz is one of my heroes. And NOT because he plays bass (the dude can admit it himself, he isn’t a great bassist anyway). I look up to him because of what he does for Invisible Children. I look up to him because he runs his own clothing label, and that inspires me to take a hand in LEK. I look up to him because of the way he treats his friends - he doesn’t take them for granted. I look up to him because his writing inspires me to write better. I look up to him for his kind heart, the way he stays to sign as much as he possibly can, the way he has overcome crippling depression, the way he has become this amazing man when he spent so long in such a dark place on the inside of his head. I look up to him because he makes me feel ok to wear bad clothes, and to have a stupid haircut, and play stupid pranks, and know that it doesn’t matter that I’m not cool.

I am not a bassist. I’m a guitarist, and not a great one either, but that doesn’t mean that I can only search for guidance and a sense of “i am ok” from Slash or John Mayer (the latter who is one of my inspirations to play guitar, since that seems to matter to you a whole bunch).

At the end of the day, Pete Wentz is not just a musician. He is a person. And that’s what makes him my hero - the person he is, not the musician he is.

dear teenage circadian rhythm.

• me: can you imagine what it'd be like if i slept alright?
• her: i dont think you would even be you.

who the hell is Phoebus Apollo?

jasabela:

In the Odyssey. Shazz I’m looking at you. Book 3, line 280. He shot Menelaus’ helmman on his way back from Sparta. Oh, uh, THIS IS SPARTA. From Sparta? No, Troy. Oops. Anyway yah. But yeah iunno who he is. It’s not important but I’m just curious, you know?

Phoebus means light (I think), and it’s just the God Apollo. Dude is always meddling in other peoples bizniz. Obvs the helmman had to die to fulfil part of whatever prophecy was going on (I need to finish rereading The Odyssey so bad) and Apollo was making sure it all went to plan. Hope that helps :)

"THIS IS SPARTA!!!"

1 down 4 to go. i think i went ok. back to studying and V and wondering exactly where i fit into this life of yours.

keep that heart on that sleeve.

xo