I Will Be The Perfect Shade

Hey, it's Ellie! I'm 18, I live in Arkansas, and I'm a Buddhist. This is a healthy living blog, so it pretty much means anything I like :)

Let's stick together, kay? Ask me anything, talk to me about whatever. I'll be here. Even when no one else is.

"those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that."

-Charles Bukowski (via sadsapling)

(Source: hellanne)

5,725 notes - 24 May 2013

fitness-barbie:

Lift Like There’s No Tomorrow: Double Standards?

liveloveliftrun:

I am often criticized for leading an openly “healthy and fit” lifestyle. People end up thinking I’m bragging about who I am and what I can do but I don’t see it that way. Why is it completely acceptable for somebody to talk about how lazy they are, how long they were at work, how many hours they…

71 notes - 24 May 2013

funeralformyfat:

fitandfab-forlife:

Or you can use paper plates!

Seriously that would murder your core!!! Love it!

"You’ve been gone so much lately, it’s like we knew what it was going to be like when you went off to college. Lost a daughter, gained a 60-inch TV."

-My mother

- 24 May 2013

Unfollowed a bunch of inactives and need new fitblrs to follow!

lift-love-run:

Please reblog so I can check you out and probably follow!

49 notes - 24 May 2013

themindislimitless:

callmebeardo:

O my God. Is that really what it stands for?

no it actually really doesn’t. this thing is a gross misinterpretation done by white people that’s been spread way too much. sigh. the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ is definitely a white thing, and as you can guess, the black is bad and white is good is most definitely not in the original part, it’s just an extension of white supremacy and anti-blackness. yin yang are nothing about opposites anyway.
it’s actually complements. yin and yang complement each other, they’re the darkness and light, yes, but also include other naturally occurring dualities that complement each other, not fight, like hot/cold, water/fire, life/death, that push/pull at each other. the point is that they seem opposites but are actually interconnected and don’t work without their complement and are actually one being— which is also why there’s a block dot in the white bit and vice versa. this is the super basic explanation given by a very exasperated chinese teacher freshman year when a kid asked her about this, so obviously I know next to nothing and the explanation of yin yang would go deeper and be analysed differently depending on which branch of chinese philosophy you’re looking at

I’ll add what I know on the subject. Above comment was right - the symbol of yin yang was meant to show the dependency in things that are considered opposites, but are really complements. Yin is black, feminine, and represented by the moon. Yang is white, masculine, and represented the sun. They are not “good” or “bad.” They cannot be - dichotomous morality is considered perception, not reality. They are energies, and they are necessary. There’s also a lot of really cool information that suggests the yin yang symbol charted the seasons (the circle Yin would be the summer solstice, and the circle Yang would be the winter solstice).
One thing that KM did get right is the idea of entirety. The outer circle represents everything (not just life). It’s interesting to notice that older depictions of this symbol had the tear-shapes more pronounced; they are completely wrapped around each other. Yin yang represents a dynamic but indivisible whole.