Going from a degree in Advertising to a career in Social Work makes you want to urgently throw up when you hear the phrase "our brand image will suffer"
Pratyusha Varanasi 🌱🏳️🌈
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Not from Varanasi // Environmentalist // Gay // Feminist // Anxiety, Depression and BPD // Talk to me in excerpts of sufi songs and poetry that makes you feel alive // Let's learn from each other? ✨
I'm still here because I want to hug my girlfriend one more time.
Because in 2 weeks, I'll see my grandmother after a year.
Because I will see a Van Gogh exhibit in December that I have waited the year for.
Because I want to watch the next season of Atypical.
Because I want to eat vada pav from a v specific stall.
Because I want to pet my best friend's dog.
Because they might miraculously make another How To Train Your Dragon film?
What's keeping you alive?
Just get through today? That's all you have to do - survive today. The next 10 minutes. The next hour. Till dinner time. Just till it's bedtime. This cloud will pass. Even if temporarily, it will. And in that brief window of sunshine, you will be warm again. And that warmth will feel good. So let's stick around for it? I'll try with you. Deal?
If no one has told you yet, it's okay even if you acted on it; I understand that you were in a lot of pain. I know, because often, I am too. But it's important that you reach out now, even if it's after you've acted on it. Someone will want to take care of you, love you & keep you around. I want to keep you around.
If you're suicidal, I need you to know that it's okay you're struggling. It's okay that you feel like death is the only answer & if you feel incredibly lonely. But I also need you to know that if anything, you are not alone in your loneliness. I'm lonely. So are more people I know & some people you know.
TW: Self harm
Yesterday was horrible. I lied to everyone that I didn't go into work because of period cramps.
Truth is, I didn't go in because I was too depressed to function. I slept the day away. I felt inadequate and frustrated. I acted on my pain and cut myself. But I reached out for support.
The Dalit VoiceOne more institutional murder at IIT Madras. Fathima Lathif, an undergraduate student in humanities and social science department committed suicide facing religious and caste discrimination from IIT faculty Sudarshan Padmanabhan, as per her suicide note. IIT Madras is a Brahminical Agrahara which makes the lives of students from minority community perishable in all ways. It is sixth suicide on the campus within two years.
yousukei think it's not that 'everybody's morally grey' but that poor people don't really have any moral choices that they can make freely, everything is stacked up against that and the 'country we are living in' is injustice so there is no avenue for that at all. anyway comrade bong joon ho had the line 'kind because you're rich' which pretty much sums it up. they don't even let someone be a person
Thaiyaan//This is criminal. For a wage of Rs 600, the contractor took the manual scavengers to Express Avenue mall. He made them pose in safety gear for a picture and then asked them to remove it before getting into the septic tank.//
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/not-given-masks-or-boots-brother-manual-scavenging-worker-who-died-chennai-mall-112208
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/not-given-masks-or-boots-brother-manual-scavenging-worker-who-died-chennai-mall-112208
‘Not given masks or boots’: Brother of manual scavenging worker who died in Chennai mall
22-year-old Ranjithkumar stands forlorn outside a government mortuary in Royapettah, Chennai. Dressed in a black T-shirt, he runs his fingernails darkened by grime across his face, a vacant expression in his eyes. His hair is matted with muck, specks of which cover his clothing. But when a friend hands over a wet cloth to help him wipe off the dirt, he waves it off, choosing to keep the reminder of a traumatic night - one which he survived, but his brother Arunkumar did not.
If I were to give you the pop culture equivalent of my personality, I'd say I'm the messy hybrid of Elena from ODAAT and Celine from the Before Trilogy.
Coke Studio is self care. Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Gulzar, Kaavish, Ali Sethi and Hariharan are sacred.
If I can learn about history, art, culture and sustainability from you, let's engage with each other? ✨