impossible thoughts turn into the most delicious dreams

"The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ‘suffering.’ So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return."

- Milan Kundera (via tattoolit)

asadchishti:

indianajosh:

thenoobyorker:

By way of synecdoche and mexistentialist.
I sympathize, I mispronounce every other word. Navid can vouch for me.

Incessant and perhaps even obsessive independent reading was a primary source of my education growing up and always provided me with a very large vocabulary that I was never quite sure how to pronounce properly, because I was discovering all of these new words entirely on my own as mute and static text on a page.
It still happens today, and I’ve had people in my life (recently, actually) who have tried correcting my pronunciation of certain words, perhaps even just jokingly, and I’ve quietly always felt really sorry for them because they’re drawing attention to what’s really one of the least important or useful aspects of these words and treating it as something critical and necessary. I’ve never understood it; it’s always sort of struck me as some form of insecure shaming or something.

Agreed.

indianajosh:

thenoobyorker:

By way of synecdoche and mexistentialist.

I sympathize, I mispronounce every other word. Navid can vouch for me.

Incessant and perhaps even obsessive independent reading was a primary source of my education growing up and always provided me with a very large vocabulary that I was never quite sure how to pronounce properly, because I was discovering all of these new words entirely on my own as mute and static text on a page.

It still happens today, and I’ve had people in my life (recently, actually) who have tried correcting my pronunciation of certain words, perhaps even just jokingly, and I’ve quietly always felt really sorry for them because they’re drawing attention to what’s really one of the least important or useful aspects of these words and treating it as something critical and necessary. I’ve never understood it; it’s always sort of struck me as some form of insecure shaming or something.

Agreed.