To the little girl at work this morning, three or four or something, who walked up to me as I was showing her dad some jeans and said “HELLO!” before proceeding to hug BOTH of my legs with her face IN my crotch. Like, friendly-dog-in-my-crotch hug.
And ofc my first instinct was to jerk away from her, like shove her away orsomething, but her dad was still there next to me so I just…
Bent down and hugged her head? Like her whole head. It was all I could reach.
And yeah that was probably the worst, most awkward moment of my existence so far
Your daily reminder that traumatised brains are literally physically different to a normal brain. Repeated trauma and abuse has a severe, long-term effect.
If you have difficulty maintaining social bonds, concentrating, sleeping, focusing, or regulating your emotions, it’s because you’re traumatised. If you’re not happy with yourself, if you worry you’re a burden, you’re toxic, that you don’t matter, it’s because you’re traumatised. If you struggle to make it out of bed, think straight, get motivated or distracted, it’s because you’re traumatised.
Have you ever been told you’re too dramatic, or emotional?Hasanyone wondered why you trust no one? Why you analyse every person’s smallest behaviour? Why you’re paranoid of the most minor signs of history repeating itself? It’s because you’re traumatised.
And it is NOT your fault.
Man existence is such a clusterfuck in general, I don’t even remember what might have traumatized me
Hades is just where people go after they die there’s no suffering no fire it’s just where you go unless you’re really fuckin bad then they chuck you into Tartarus
Stop applying Western Christianity symbolism to a mutitheistic religion that isn’t even remotely similar I’m begging you please
Three different parts of the realm of Hades:
Fields of Punishment. For murderers, rapists, people with no good redeeming qualities, people who had gone against the gods (Sisyphus and Tantalus come to mind).
Fields of Asphodel/Asphodel Meadows. The basic crowd, the largest bunch. People who were an even mix of good and bad. Unremarkable, nothing happens there, you just wander around for eternity.
Elysium/Elysian Fields. For the pure of heart, the sacrificial ones, the people who died heroes. Within Elysium is the Isle of the Blest, or the place for those who chose rebirth and ended up in Elysium three times when they died. Very exclusive, very small, basically the equivalent of Eden.
Different myths say different things about who goes where, but those three places are always the same.
Tartarus was generally reserved for monsters and titans, though I’m sure some myths would argue for evil humans being thrown there as well.
Hades is the RULER of the Underworld. Not the Underworld itself.
Reblogging because I did NOT know that rebirth was an option in Hellenismos. This is honestly pretty cool. I wonder if they had a belief in something akin to ghosts (souls trapped on Earth for one reason or another) too… Gotta read up on that.
