u/Unlikely-Finance-638

I think Talaash, Kaun, Ek Hasina Thi, are other such films. Got any top picks?

Month 1 of when baby boy was rescued.

Paw Patrol, security has been compromised.

Started to read Dostoyevsky, thought his shorter stories would be easier to read, but don't see much discussion on it. It seems he wrote all kinds of books, so I'm hoping to make my way in by starting with what is appearing to be hopefully easier.

Would love to hear your thoughts, and if there's a particular order you'd suggest I go about this, so that I can be truly immersed in his work.

Wakes up to no other sound or request, except to grace me with kisses. If you could ever believe he was rescued from a literal garbage dump five years ago, JUST LOOK AT THIS PRINCE!!!

Caught high on catnip? on the job, paralysed but unbothered. Not a single brain cell in attendance.

Can't wait for the next one...

So I was reading some stuff online and found about something called 'Racial Infection' in Jung's writings on American culture, he explicitly warned that living in proximity to Black Americans would psychologically degrade or "infect" the white European psyche. He wrote that the "Negro" presence caused a "serious mental and moral problem" due to a "temperamental and mimetic infection". He suggested this unconscious psychological influence affected white Americans, causing them to unconsciously assume primitive or childlike attitudes and behaviours.

Is this for real? Sorry if this is common knowledge. I'm still getting to it. I really like what I have read of him, but after Freud, and some other discoveries with former childhood heroes, I always like to know the complete person. So got down this rabbit hole. Issues and all.

https://artefacts-discovery.researcher.life/full_text/DA-2/f3/f367cbe2d5563a3cb4a6290ba3ce7760/full_text/3a4b9d3575e51f529d993627818ca91e.pdf

Look at this adorable little rescue we got in. She was bred illegally by some terrible people who ended up killing her birth mother, and this little baby was about to be sent to a kill shelter as she is blind, has spinal and neurological issues, and nobody wished to buy, adopt or foster her. While they shut down the illegal operation, she still had no takers, with the kill shelter just days away.

But someone at the shelter knew about some crazy girls. And that's how we got to know about her. We were told that she won't survive more than four weeks, and that all the health issues would be impossible to manage unless someone took care of her full time.

This was 4 years ago, and she is still happy, healthy, and safe with us.

It was easier for her to live as a man and stay safe while ensuring her daughter and her own safety.

S Petchiammal was just 20 years old when she lost her husband to a heart attack, only 15 days after their wedding. She was pregnant at the time and later gave birth to a daughter. Raising a child alone in Katunayakkanpatti, a village in Tamil Nadu, meant facing constant harassment as a single working woman. She took up jobs at construction sites, hotels and tea shops but the taunts and abuse never stopped. So she made a decision that changed her life. She cut her hair, swapped her saree for a shirt and lungi, and renamed herself Muthu. For the next 36 years, she lived and worked as a man to keep her daughter safe.

As Muthu, she worked as a painter, a tea master and a parotta maker, and was known in her area as Muthu Master. Her Aadhaar card, voter ID and bank account all carried her male identity. Only her closest relatives and her daughter, Shanmugasundari, knew the truth. Her daughter has since gotten married, but Petchiammal, now 57, has chosen to remain Muthu for the rest of her life. She says the disguise gave her freedom and safety in a world that offered a single mother neither. Her story is a quiet but powerful reminder of what women are still forced to do just to survive and protect their children.

Inspired by the inevitable madness one inherits after losing someone or something they loved a little too dearly.

In Arabic, Majnun (مجنون) literally translates to "crazy," "insane," or "possessed".

\~•\~ Majnun \~•\~

You will always find me there,

Tucked comfortably with the thoughts inside my head.

Engrossed with words I wrote and read,

And the #beauty that with me you shared.

Some say that I have lost my mind,

Stuck in the past, the world left me behind.

But it took so long for me to find

You, my #favouritesong, so I keep hitting rewind.

No good comes from living in the past you say,

But I remember it as clear as today,

Your gentle love, just took away

Everything in me (I wasn't even aware) that ached.

You brought with you a love I thought had ceased to exist,

You didn't even try, and I never bothered to resist.

But every great story needs an earth-shattering twist,

I tried so hard to hold on, but like sand, you slipped from my fist.

Then I am jolted back to reality,

By whispers and screams that call me crazy,

They say you are gone, so how can I see

You right here, in front of me.

We talk, and laugh and argue like —

before they stole you, you are once again mine.

So I stay in my thoughts, with you all the time...

And they seem to think I've lost my mind. -A.J.

Artwork by @tinamariaelena

Balance is key.

In frame: Dude on his way to mosque for Friday prayers.

Reddit has recently become flooded with people, and it seems everyone is desperately looking for their mate.

I don't understand how we seek partners but treat them like commodities or objects, our particularities are great when it comes to our preferences and tastes, but you won't get a cookie cutter version though.

Just like you're a complex person with a varied history, so will your partner be. And it takes a very different level of maturity to actually be able to accept a person the way we wish to be accepted.

And I think we have all become very intolerant towards anyone and anything that doesn't conform to our ideas and morals, it leaves very little room for growth, if at all.

We want someone who is obsessed with us and loves us, flaws and all, but then we only knit pick their faults and fail to see the good and the bad make the person whole. Seems a bit skewed.

AND THEN PEOPLE PROBABLY COME HERE AFTER LOSING EVERY BIT OF HOPE, I mean WHO LOOKS FOR PARTNERS ON REDDIT? Obviously someone who tried everything and lost hope.

So a man puts up a post and says he gets no DMs. A woman puts up a meme and gets flooded. And then everyone talks about how it is so unfair and that women have Soooooo many options. we don't!

I guess I'm just sick of the double standard. People keep talking about the male loneliness epidemic and how girls get flooded with DMs.

But can we please focus on the quality of men approaching the woman? Women get hundreds of DMs from absolute creeps, why would she even respond?

Women are generally safer, you will not be getting an unsolicited picture in your DMs for sure. Men on the other hand......

All a man has to do is be decent at conversation, fairly educated, come across 'modern'/'feminist', maybe have hair? Some height if that works, and earn a decent living. And this makes him HIGHLY VALUABLE to women of extremely high pedigree.

A woman could be all those things, but if she isn't beautiful and exceptional, in some sad cases can't give a massive dowry, or whatever the crap traditions are.... she may MAY GET LUCKY, but that is an exception. Most probably she will still end up picking a husband from those creepy men who once slid in someone else's DMs. Only she won't know. And the creep might ghost her too. Or marry her and mistreat her. This is if she's lucky. If it's bad he may abuse her, she may face harassment from in laws, and a plethora of other issues. Either way, What a blow to her self respect and esteem. So women are as unlucky as men, because in this reality, we are all getting done over by the weight of our own expectations.

I guess ignorance is bliss.