“When you’re a teenager and in your early twenties it seems desperately eternal and excruciatingly painful. Whereas as you grow older you realise that most things are excruciatingly painful and that is the human condition. Most of us continue to survive because we’re convinced that somewhere along the line, with grit and determination and perseverance, we will end up in some magical union with somebody. It’s a fallacy, of course, but it’s a form of religion. You have to believe. There is a light that never goes out and it’s called hope.”
—

Morrissey on Love

And

"It takes strength to be gentle and kind." - Morrissey

What has clicked as of tonight is the fact that love is subversive for one specific reason: because it takes strength to develop and keep. True peace is attained through a similar fashion: remaining diligent in effort to be integral and kind. Is that not what we lack? What war began with civility and empathy, or even the sacrifice of one deciding more or an alternative is not needed?

So fuck capitalism.


Also, I Know its Over is probably now my favorite break up song. Its inspiring in a way.

The Morrissey Effect

as defined by the DSM IV: inspiring an individual to feel so alone that they wonder if they should even continue living, then comforting them with a joke or the genuine honesty of that which depressed them in the first place.

Its so easy to laugh, its so easy to hate, it takes strength to be kind over and over and over and over

-Morrissey

This world has some weird fucking values. The perception of strong is an individual who is often uncaring for other individuals who can triumph in any situation. If strength encompasses being that person who only takes care of themselves and is fine with living like that, I'm going to eke my days out in loneliness and weakness because I'm not going to be the half-assed participant in a bunch of group activities composed of people who will talk all the shit in the world about others once they're no longer around.