S P O E K M A T H A M B O

H O W T O L O V E M E

Lover, 

give me books

quote Tolstoy

feed me words

seduce my mind and 

you will own my heart

Yours feverishly,

Z

L I N C O L N

I can't wait to see this.

E X P L A I N E D

"Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation. If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life.
It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged."

I think anyone suffering from depression will agree that this is probably the best explanation of the daily struggle...

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L I T T L E D R A G O N

This time next week, all the cool kids will come out to play. Adidas All Orginals and We-Are-Awesome events have done us best by bringing Little Dragon to South Africa!

I S E E A D I F F E R E N T Y O U

I have the utmost respect for this trio. I can't tell you how bloody happy their project makes me. The initial concept was to show (South)Africa through their eyes...none of that "Oh look, another starving child" nonsense, but the true beauty that lurks in our continent's bosom. You can check these boys out here 

A Z E A L I A B A N K S

S P E L L

I can't begin to tell you how much money and time I've spent on this shop...not to mention, I've become an expert currency converter.