Shout Out To My Arabic Teacher That Looked At Us Yesterday Mid-lesson And Said, Im Worried. You All Look

Shout out to my Arabic teacher that looked at us yesterday mid-lesson and said, “I’m worried. You all look exhausted and depressed.”

Of course we were all like, “Oh yeah we’re dead inside, you haven’t noticed?”

And he snapped shut the textbook, threw up his hands and said, “That’s not healthy! No more vocab! Time for dancing!”

And he taught us a dance from Iraq and we danced instead of doing vocab. We didn’t stop dancing until he saw all of us laughing and was satisfied that we were all feeling better. It was perhaps the coolest, most kind-hearted thing I’ve ever seen a college instructor do.

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

– Audrey Hepburn

"You don’t tell people you’re not okay,“ she said, "because it’s hard watching them not know what to do".

"Then you end up comforting them, even though the one who needed comforting was you".

-Sue Zhao- Excerpt from a book I’ll never write #222