The Office cast says goodbye. Man, tomorrow night’s going to be really hard. And long. (That’s what she said!)
The Office ends tonight. Let the ugly crying commence.
One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it’s your home, and you must decorate it.
(Source: thatquote)
Treated Like a Person
- Prince Christopher: Tell me, Cinderella, what would a man have to do to find himself in your good graces?
- Cinderella: Who wants to know?
- Prince Christopher: Let's just say...a charming stranger.
- Cinderella: This charming stranger seems pretty sure of himself, but he'd have to get to know me a lot better than some girl he just met on the street.
- Prince Christopher: Oh, but he'd like to. Very much.
- Cinderella: I'm not sure I want to meet this stranger. I doubt if he has any idea how a girl should be treated.
- Prince Christopher: Like a princess, I suppose.
- Cinderella: No. Like a person, with kindness and respect.
John Green's tumblr: The Commencement Address
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…
John Green’s commencement speech for Butler University grads is definitely worth reading in its entirety.
My favorite passage:
“I would encourage you as often as possible to consider the Happy Birthday Sir Despite the Circumstances possibility, the possibility that the lives and experiences of others are as complex and unpredictable as your own, that other people — be they family or strangers, near or far — are not simply one thing or the other — not simply good or evil or wise or ignorant — but that they like you contain multitudes, to borrow a phrase from the great Walt Whitman.
“This is difficult to do — it is difficult to remember that people with lives different and distant from your own even celebrate birthdays, let alone with gifts of graffitied plywood. You will always be stuck inside of your body, with your consciousness, seeing through the world through your own eyes, but the gift and challenge of your education is to see others as they see themselves, to grapple with this mean and crazy and beautiful world in all its baffling complexity.”
“Self-editing,” a newspaper blackout by Austin Kleon
14 Reasons Why Life Should Be More Like "Singin' In The Rain"
Ever notice how delightfully awkward this movie is?
10. Hey, guess what? This guy is a movie star! And he’ll fall in love with you, Normal Girl.
One of the arguments we often use for not writing is this: ‘I have nothing original to say. Whatever I might say, someone else has already said it, and better than I will ever be able to.’ This, however, is not a good argument for not writing. Each human person is unique and original, and nobody has lived what we have lived. Furthermore, what we have lived, we have lived not just for ourselves but for others as well. Writing can be a very creative and invigorating way to make our lives available to ourselves and to others. We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories, the better we will want to live them.
How I feel on Friday afternoons, sometimes. Also, they were so adorable!
21 Reasons I Did Not Know You Were Trouble When You Walked In
Some of my favorites from this article:
4. You were not wearing a nametag, and that nametag was not strategically placed on your chest in order to cover up the embroidered label “I am trouble.”
10. You did not have a handlebar moustache. You did not attempt to tie me, or anyone else, to railroad tracks. There were zero intertitles describing the narrative action between us. We were not sepia-toned.
11. You were wearing a mask, but I just thought it was to hide your emotions and vulnerability. Really, who ISN’T less vulnerable underneath a balaclava?
19. I did not find you in the “cauldron ingredients” section of Whole Foods.
