Sigh…
(Source: symplastic, via team-avatar-legend)
Funny that this would pop up on my dash just as I was pondering the very word.
I am constantly, and always delighted to be reminded of a quote I’d read by Haruki Murakami in his short story ‘Man Eating Cats’ as part of a compilation of short stories nestled in the book ‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’
This was on the order of a minor miracle - running across someone you express your feelings to so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been a mistake to label this ‘love’. It was more like total empathy.
I’m fortunate to have met a few people who I can honestly say have invoked this feeling. Naturally, most have remained dear friends, surpassing the challenging distance and neglect that shadows a highly independent lifestyle.
That this empathy exists, I feel the word swell like a balloon, proud within my chest. That it can exist, if only between two or three, causes a rush of sweet hope for the fate of any human connection. Every reciprocated smile, each glance warmly met, those unexplained attractions or mutual understandings each have embedded in their action this small, unrefined nugget of precious empathy.
When you catch that glimmer, like an oddly alluring reflection of self, it takes hold of you in a very tangible way. Within minutes you can reach bold conclusions -you and I will be part of each others lives forever - you feel yourself think, embarrassingly. But you simply know it for a fact.
I try to meditate on this thought as it comes to me. Personally, I feel a timely revival of my faith in humanity’s future and also of my future on an intimate scale. When I feel my most isolated or experience creative disconnect, I simply consider the myriad possibilities for empathy to find me and emphatically plug me back in.
Total empathy is a concept that enables. Within the bonds of friendship or within the dialogue of the mind.
I genuinely wish for this ‘enabling’ in everyone.
(Source: pushthemovement, via rinlockhart)
cartoon voice actors reading Star Wars. This is phenomenal
I made it til about Pinky going “UM EXCUSE ME LORD VADER” and I never recovered
This is pure awesomesauce. Highlights include Bill Cosby and Christopher Walken as R2D2, John Dimaggio equipping the voices of Tracy Morgan, Bender and Jake the dog. Several appearances by William Shatner and more that I simply can’t recall after happily viewing for over an hour.
Totally worth the time.
I’m the avatar! You gotta deal with it!
(Source: human-spectre, via rinlockhart)
