Real life events are treated like fictional media automatically entering some meme cannon and fictional media is demanded of so much moralism and the events in fictional media are treated with so much seriousness as if whatever is being depicted..is being condoned. People talk about media literacy all of the time now but it’s actually crazy how nothing that happens in real life is sacred or free of exploitation but anything fictional has to be explicitly clear in a specific moral compass.
"I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets."
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
eye-opening tumblr post for me included the words "people are meant to be burdens" as in humans rely on and support one another and it's not a bother it's our purpose; to love and be loved in return. so if you ever think you're being annoying just remember we were made to love and it's going to be okay
Louis Glück, from “Winter Morning” in The Triumph of Achilles
Vincent Van Gogh, letter to Theo van Gogh (Aug. 1879)