"lol tiktok users would rather learn mandarin than come to tumblr" yeah man that's crazy. who would have thought that people from the video-based dopamine-machine app wouldn't decide to join the text- and image- based no-algorithm website?

Speak to me in the language of flowers ; in petals that whisper secrets of love, in blossoms that tell tales of longing and devotion. Let the red roses murmur of passion, the white lilies of innocence, and the lavender of calm, enduring trust. Speak to me through the gentle grace of tulips, a promise of forever, and the elegance of orchids, a rare beauty that stands the test of time. Let each flower bloom with words you cannot say, a garden of emotions woven into colors and scents, a silent symphony that only hearts can hear

"DARLING, DEAREST, DEAD."

I randomly came across this sentence on a Tumblr post. I don't know where it came from, whether it's from a book, a movie, or a song. I googled it and it's a series of dedications in a book. I don't know the context in which the writer used it, but I do know that the words darling, dearest, and dead in the same sentence are haunting. I haven't been able to get it out of my head since I read it. You love someone, you cherish someone, you care for them and then they die. You're heartbroken, and these can be the words your heart cries out, but this sounds like a linear story. Doesn't it?

Do we love people and then cry when they die? No. We take people for granted and then cry. We disrespect them and then cry. We make them feel unworthy and then regret it. Most of our tears are less grief and more regret.

"I wish I would have talked to them nicely."

"I wish I had resolved the misunderstandings already ."

"I wish I could go back in time and fix everything ."

"I wish I had been a better person to them."

"I wish I could take back those words."

"I wish, I wish, I wish."

But that doesn't change anything and you carry your regret and grief forward in your life, the regret being so heavy that it often makes your life miserable.

The reasons why things happen, whether small and petty or large and significant, don’t matter as much as the fact that death is larger than any of them. It's greater and heavier than any of the stones you have to turn to make things better.

I often think about people who go out of their way to harm me in various ways, to be rude to me, to demean me, to assassinate my character in any way they can. I wonder about what they will be thinking if I die today. Will their regret haunt them? Will their life be miserable? Will they live as happily as they do now? Will they be at peace with the harm they have done? Would they want to turn back time and wish for one more chance? I hope they do, but more than that, I hope they could be good to me while I am alive.

So, it turns out that people in your life might also be waiting for you to take the first step. Don't wait for them to do that. Maybe they are not courageous enough, maybe they are afraid of your reactions, maybe there are other reasons but what you do is in your control. Take the first step: be the bigger person, which I know can be very difficult, but it can save you and them from a lot of pain. Do it for yourself.

"David Mamet said, 'We regret the things we did not do more than the things we did.'” You would not want to drown yourself in that kind of regret.

They're still alive, you still have a chance.

Remember, Death is not the prerequisite to love. Do not wait for them to die to love them.

It hurts so much to see women hating their own bodies, their reproductive system mostly. The menstruation cycle is a beautiful thing imo and our periods are not even supposed to hurt so much. The pain and all the pms symptoms we experience are a sign of hormonal imbalances, and yes, guess why almost every women today has a hormonal imbalance? Because of patriarchy and capitalism. Because this a world made by men for men. Because they've never considered our well-being.

I am pretty shocked with the discussions about the election results happening on tumblr. It is truly disappointing to see how many of the so called educated youth have been misinformed or are, just too lazy to research about events before forming any opinion on them.

So, bear with me because this is going to be a long ass post.

When one decides to chose the future of one's country, they have to research the options available to them before giving the judgement. And the research should come from watching the ground reality and also delving into the feasible resources available to one.

The foremost resource people go to is the news channels and newspapers. And l am assuming everyone knows that all media houses, both regional and national are bought by individual parties. Same is the issue with the international media. They will never give you completely unbiased information.

In India, the media houses are all differentiated by being allied with the right wingers and the left wingers. The international media houses are mostly pro left as are the print media on the internet. Research the origin of their channels and who are present in their board.

You will understand everything better.

So, while seeing the news, we'll have to go through a multiple number of channels and what side they are taking, their perspectives and their own narratives, to even get some measure of the truth.

Research the history of the nation, their international relationships with other countries, the geopolitical state of the world, the individual agendas and interests of powerful people in powerful posts, worldwide.

Every single thing is interrelated and interlinked like one massive spider web.

Look at the money trail my friends. See how the parties are getting funded and who are the ones holding the actual strings behind the scenes.

The recent youth upsurge on social media is divided in their opinion but how many of them are actually aware with what is actually impacting the political roadmap of the country?

Dhruv Rathee (reminds me of Kanhaiya Kumar and the JNU nonsense), and his infamous videos - the national sensation of late has taken the youth by storm.

Why?

Do you even know who he is? Who is his political godfather? Who is putting money in his coffers?

He coined the term dictatorship and fascist government.

And that is the most popular words I have seen been used with regards to the ruling party.

My dearly beloved oblivious friends, have you even done two percent research on your source before believing him.

Okay, lets forget about that German cockroach.

Let us talk about dictatorship and fascism.

Which policy decision taken by the Government made you believe that they were a dictatorship?

Every single decision they had taken was constitutional, following the constitution by letter, which their main opposition had made and drafted and had been following since the last seventy years when they were in power.

Which one? Abrogation of Article 370? The CAA? The Ram Mandir?

The Ram Mandir construction was a decision taken by the Supreme Court in a verdict of over 3000 pages. The SC which has proved time and again that they are mostly anti-Modi.

Or are you blaming the ED for arresting Kejriwaal before the elections? The same ED whose summons the aforenoted had ignored for nine straight times? The same ED which had investigated both Modi and Shah during Congress's rule. The ED which brough hard evidence to support their claims in front of the SC who charged the Delhi CM.

The Delhi CM who after getting bail flouted all the rules mentioned by the SC as terms of his temporary release. The same CM whose secretary allegedly assaulted a female party member who has been seen voraciously campaigning for his own release.

Do you even know how one man with apparent crowd funding became the leader of one of the most powerful regional parties in the North west belt? Do you know which institutions supported his party? Do you know anything about Swati Maliwal and her personal life? Do you have any idea whose allegiance the Punjab CM follows? Do you know why Raghav Chaddha needed an eye operation post haste during Kejriwaal's arrest? Do you know why Sanjay Singh defected?

And what kind of a dictator our PM is, who lets anyone and everyone speak whatever they wish about him?

Do you think the American President or the UK PM or any western leader so to speak, would have let any person spewing nonsensical shit about them, roam free without any repurcurssions?

Things like 'Chowkidar chor hain (our PM is a thief)' and 'I will cut down the PM to pieces' or 'Modi is a dictator' or 'the PM is stupid' or 'the Sanatanis should be annihilated' are direct extracts from the individual speeches given by the opposition and certain social media content creators.

I didn't see either of Rahul Gandhi, Udaynidhi Stalin, Manishankar Iyyer or Dhruv Rathee or anyone else be incarcerated.

Asaduddin Owaisi will start screaming and shouting that the Muslims are endangered in this country and the people of his community will go and kill the hindus for no reason at all. But when Stalin's brainless heir starts shouting about cutting down Sanatani Hindus, I can't find the internet audience protesting against such hateful words.

Then there are the so called woke pseudo liberals on the internet who bemoan that the Government is fascist and the country will go to ruin when a mosque which has been legally proved to have been constructed after demolishing a temple by invaders (whom the same community urges us to not consider as their ancestors) is deconstructed.

The ruling party whose manifesto since generations have included the building of that particular temple. Of course it is a political move you idiots. That was one of the reasons the party was voted to power.

One of, mind you.

To the literate population of the harrowed halls of this platform who will start yelling about schools and hospitals, do you know how many have been built since the ruling government came to power? Have you done any statistical research on how many the opposition you think is better, has built in their own won constituencies?

Has anyone researched the numbers pertaining to the economic growth of the country? The GDP increase rate? The market values? The international trade exchange policies? The infrastructural developments on field? The scientific enhancements? The geopolitical power moves?

Why the hell do you think India supported Russia during the Ukraine war? Do you even know two percent of what is happening in Palestine and Israel? Why do you think America pokes its abysmally long nose in our internal matters which is completely unsolicited?

The same people who hate the PM love some of his cabinet members equally. Before accusing the supporters of blind loyalty, check if your all consuming hatred towards an individual is warranted to be reflected on the work he has done and the people he has handpicked for distributing the posts of power in his government.

Respected illustrious future citizens of my great nation, do you think bureaucrats with the knowledge and experience which by far supersedes all of yours and mine included, would have aligned themselves with a so called orthodox, regressive, majoritarian party?

Ashwini Vaishnav, S. Jaishankar, Nitin Gadkari and many more, with their incredible resumes and work to show, are part of the BJP, don't forget. Who do you want to replace them? The Congressi Gandhi family slaves? Or do you want Kapil Sibal back in the education ministry, or better Law and Order. Jayram Ramesh?

Has anyone ever read about the Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Robert Vadra triangle? Do they know about how Kamal Nath ties into it all? What do they know about the mass murder of the Nepali royal family? Do they have any idea about the MOUs the Gandhis owe to China. What do you know about the accession of Aksai Chin? Why do you think Rahul Gandhi turned stark raving mad at the Rafael deal?

Have any of you seen any of the photos leaked from the NGO meetings RaGa attended in Washington?

And the Kashmir Issue? Has anyone ever followed Mehbooba Mufti and Farukh Abdullah's political career? Or is everything too taken in by Omar Abdullah's Oxfordian accent like they do with Shashi Tharoor. Do they know anything about the separatists of the Valley?

The people prancing around in BJP's loss in UP and Bengal and TN. What do you know about the ground reality there? Have you ever followed the socioeconomic tapestry of these states? The Dravidianism of the South, the Periyar ideology, the rice bag converts in TN? The demographic change based on vote bank in Bengal? The hawala money network from the Gulf and Syria making inroads in Kerala and their communist government?

Do you have any idea about the Agniveer Scheme and why was it brought on ground and why did it fail? Why the government couldn't carry on with the farm laws?

Do know why TDP In Andhra is BJP's long term alliance partner? Do you know why Nitish Kumar keeps swinging between parties? Do you have any idea about why Shivsena decided to break the alliance in the last term?

Has anyone seen where the wrestlers of Haryana were getting their funding from, during the state polls. Do you know the entire story of why Sakshi Malik decided to join politics? Have you any idea about their list of demands made to the centre?

Or did you all just decide that the government should fall because a few elite looking, erudite and sophisticated silver tongued devils on the media start coining elaborately bombastic terms and it is just in fashion to debunk the right wing because of the post colonial, ultra modernistic rationale which has been normalised by the west.

Now, I am not saying that the BJP is completely incorruptible and they have done no mistake. Every party has their hidden skeletons and agendas. What I am saying is before forming an opinion based on a few half baked, propagandist information sources - do your homework.

No one had stopped the opposing parties from showing their own work by developing the areas where they were in majority. No one had stopped the opposition from outshining the ruling government by bringing in better solutions. No one had even stopped them from spreading outright false and hateful narratives in the press.

So, where is the work? I can't even find it with a magnifying glass.

I think, they forgot that the work of an opposition party is not only opposing any and all policies and decisions made by the ruling party.

Like I have mentioned before, I am happy with the results even if all of us, including myself had envisioned a much bigger margin for the win for BJP.

As mentioned in one of my earlier posts, no single person or party should feel like they are invincible. The moment complacency starts coming in the picture, the downward spiral begins.

And then, like they say, 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely'.

So, it was imperative for the ruling government to understand that even though the honest citizens of the country will stand with them when they work, they can be easily dethroned if they start getting overconfident and developing an inflated sense of their own infallibility.

Having said all that, this is politics my friend.

This is chess not ludo.

It is a far more complicated and complex game than any of us can ever imagine.

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Edit: Okay, I think people might misunderstand what I am trying to say here. This post is not a general debate on politics and politicians. This is debunking the leftist propaganda and their bullshit agenda. Please do not come in my comments uttering nonsense about why you haven't showcased the faults of the government. I have specifically mentioned that they have their cons as well, just I believe that the pros overshadow the cons. And why I believe so, you'll find in the answers to the questions I have posted.

1. Pratyangira: Goddess of magical spells.

2. Narasimhi: Goddess of magical spells and black magic.

3. Aranyani: Goddess of forests.

4. Yami: Goddess of death and sister of Yama.

5. Pushan: God of marriage, travelling, roads and feeding cattle.

6. Varuni: Goddess of wine.

7. Kamakhya: Goddess of desire.

8. Ratri: Goddess of night.

9. Nasatya and Dasra (Ashwins): Twin gods of medicine.

10. Annapurna: Goddess of food and nourishment.

11. Shakambhari: Goddess of vegetation.

12. Mariamman: Goddess of rain.

13. Shitala: Goddess of cold and disease.

14. Dhata: God of health and magic.

15. Vishwakarma: God of architecture.

16. Skanda: God of war.

17. Shani: God of karma and justice.

18. Manasa: Goddess of snakes and fertility.

19. Kubera: God of wealth.

20. Nidra: Goddess of sleep.

21. Chamunda: Goddess of war, famine and fear.

22. Akhilandeshwari: The Cosmic Egg, she who is never not broken, Goddess of brokenness.

23. Dhumavati: The Widow Goddess.

24. Chitragupta: God of justice.

25. Murugun: God of war, victory and knowledge.

26. Jyestha: Goddess of laziness and elder sister of Lakshmi.

27. Alakshmi: Goddess of misfortune and twin sister of Lakshmi.

28. Amsha and Vivasan: Solar deities.

29. Dantakali: Goddess of teeth.

30. Himavat: God of the Himalayas.

31. Samudra: God of seas and oceans.

32. Dyaus: God of sky.

33. Tapati: Sun Goddess.

34. Rohini: Moon Goddess and one of the Nakshatra deities.

35. Pramatha: God of ghosts...? (sources unclear)

36. Shachi: Goddess of jealousy.

37. Jara: Goddess of old age and daughter of death.

38. Mara: Goddess of death.

39. Chhaya: Goddess of shadows.

40. Ushas: Goddess of dawn.

41. Sanjna/Sandhya: Goddess of dusk, clouds and chastity, sister of Kama.

42: Bhramari: Goddess of bees.

43: Bankamundi: Goddess of hunting and fertility.

44: Bhadra: God of hunting.

45. Rundas: God of hunting and fortune.

46. Vasanta: God of spring and flowers.

47. Savitr: Solar deity, mostly of sunsets and sunrises. Also god of motion.

48. Anila: God of cosmic elements.

49. Danu: Goddess of (primordial) waters.

50. Revanta: God of hunting, horses and warriors.

51. Bahuchara: Goddess of chastity and fertility.

52. Rati: Goddess of love, desire and passion.

53: Kanyakumari: Goddess of chastity.

54. Nirrti: Goddess of death, decay and sorrow.

55: Kotravai: Goddess of war and victory.

56: Vac: Goddess of speech.

57: Sarama: Goddess of intuition (and dogs but not that sure)

58: Karni: Goddess of power, victory and mice.

59. Asvajayu: Goddess of fortune, joy, good luck and happiness.

60. Dhisana: Goddess of prosperity.

61. Mohini: Goddess of enchantment.

62. Lajja Gauri: Goddess of abundance, fertility and sexuality.

63. Shashthi: Goddess of vegetation and reproduction (also benefactor and protector of children).

64. Anumati: Moon goddess of spirituality.

65. Poleramma: Goddess of plague and smallpox.

66. Phul: Goddess of disease.

67. Santoshi: Goddess of satisfaction.

68. Tara: Goddess of felicity and optimism (she is different from Tara, who is a Mahavidya, a tantric form of Parvati).

69. Oladevi: Goddess of cholera.

70. Apam Napat: God of water.

71. Bhaga: God of wealth.

72. Vinayaki: Elephant-headed Goddess of wisdom

73. Chelamma: A Scorpion Goddess

74. Saranyu: Goddess of clouds.

I ASKED MY MOM ONE DAY WHAT NAME U WOULD HAVE GIVEN ME OR SAVED IT FOR ME - SHE SAID SHE WANTED TO NAME aME RATI (goddess of love,desire, passion) I SOMETIMES ASK HER TO CALL ME AS RATI CUZ WHY NOT....

Marina Tsvetaeva, On Love

I think this is going to be a long post

But please read if you can

I'm pursuing BAMS - ayurvedic doctor (वैद्य)

It's disappointing to see how we have to prove our own शास्त्र(shastra) developed by our आचार्य and ऋषी- महर्षी by devoting their entire life , in our own country

Some people here have always made fun of ayurvedic vaidya for following the 'old and out of trend' medical science.

Some even say that it was created by gods and Hindus did nothing, how do we know it's real and blah blah blah

So I'll put some FACTS here.

***I'm a 1st year student, of course i know i don't have so much knowledge, I'm aware that i lack experience and knowledge but this is from what I've learnt , if you find errors kindly enlighten me****

So as written in samhita (संहिता)

आयुर्वेद has always existed

It's known as अनादी, अनंत and अपुरूष

(not created, nor can be destroyed and not created by humans)

It also is not created by gods

As written in smahitas

ब्रम्हा propounded ( NOT CREATED) the knowledge of Ayurveda.

Bramha passed it to the Daksh prajapati

From daksh ji to Ashwini Kumar (doctors of god's) and from them to Indra dev

And when on earth, different vyadhi, pida (diseases and discomfort) started to occur

Rushi, maharshi went to the lord Indra

But it's said that as lord Indra didn't have much time to teach them , he just gave them only 3 words and all rishis on those three words developed ayurveda by experimenting, debating, discussing etc

(Rishi means scientists)

Rishis have given 400- 500 years even 1000 of their life

(yes, they could expand their life span)

And developed and wrote what they learnt in different ग्रंथ and शास्त्र

If you take treatments or read about Ayurveda you will realise how powerful ayurveda really is ,

I request if you don't want to follow it it's okay but at least don't disrespect it.

Phew it was long ik but I'd like to write more of this so tell me if you would also want to read more 😊

@a-really-hot-caterpillar @timepasswithdee @chaanv @savlon-bhoi @janetsnakehole02

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And so it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send.

- Sylvia Plath

literally

"You can't be a lurker on tumblr." Yes, you absolutely can. I've been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven't interacted with anyone in years.