Gowty

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Some of us don't get to grow old with the one we love, but we never stop loving them..

[Gowty @Jack_gowty]

I wanted you to be strong and independent.
But you became more than that unstoppable.
And that took you away from me.
I used to forget things, but now I’m trapped in the same memories and dreams, in an endless loop.

[Mike @DonMike_X]

One of the best emotional movies. 10/10, no doubt! 🔥

Marriage Story (2019). end part scene 😭

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

When you are mentally disturbed, you don't always act kind, you get irritated easily. Your patience started to fade. You speak rudely sometimes, not because you want to, but because your heart is tired of holding too much. You push people away, and they call it bad behaviour. they see anger, but only you know the truth. It's not anger, it's mental exhaustion. a mind crowded with unsaid words slowly turning into sadness. Emotions become too heavy to carry, too painful to explain, and all you're doing is trying to survive the noise inside.

[Alighieri Umaru☧ @writriverdale]

There are men who have spent their entire lives with just the memory of one.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Her name was Wang Xiao, and at twenty-four years old, she was running out of time.

Doctors told her she had roughly one year left to live unless she received a kidney transplant. She suffered from uremia, a severe condition where the kidneys stop filtering waste from the blood, slowly poisoning the body from the inside. Her family had already been tested. None of them matched. Every normal option had failed.

So Wang did something almost nobody around her would have dared to do.

In 2013, she posted a message inside an online cancer support group. Her words were painfully direct because she no longer had the luxury of pretending.

She was searching for a terminally ill man with her blood type who would be willing to marry her and donate his kidney after his death.

In return, she promised she would care for him through the rest of his illness with everything she had.

“I just want to live,” she wrote.

Most people would have scrolled past the message.

One man did not.

His name was Yu Jianping.

He was twenty-seven years old, a former business manager and university graduate whose life had already been devastated by myeloma, a serious cancer affecting plasma cells. He had gone through a bone marrow transplant once already. The cancer had returned. His father had sold the family home to pay medical bills. A girlfriend had left after the diagnosis. Yu had quietly stopped fighting emotionally long before he stopped breathing physically.

Then he saw Wang’s message.

Their blood types matched.

He responded with remarkable simplicity:

“I can marry you.”

They met in a park for the first time.

And something unexpected happened almost immediately.

They liked each other.

One day during an online conversation, Wang suddenly disappeared for a while. Then she replied with dark humor that perfectly captured her spirit:

“On dialysis now. My arm is fixated. Here is a single-handed monster.”

She sent him a video from the dialysis machine smiling despite the tubes and blood moving beside her.

Yu laughed.

He later admitted he had not truly laughed in a very long time.

On July 16, 2013, they officially registered their marriage with a formal written agreement.

The contract was practical and emotionally detached on paper.

They would not live together.
They would not combine finances.
Their families would not know about the arrangement.

If Yu died and his kidney matched, Wang would receive it. In exchange, she promised she would care for his elderly widowed father for the rest of the man’s life.

It began as a survival agreement between two people who believed death was approaching.

But life complicated the arrangement.

Wang started accompanying Yu to hospital appointments.
Yu cooked soup for her after dialysis sessions.
They walked hospital corridors together.
They joked about sickness and death with the strange humor people develop when they genuinely understand mortality.

Without realizing it fully, the contract slowly became love.

Then Yu needed another bone marrow transplant — one his family could not afford.

Wang refused to stand still.

She opened a small flower bouquet stall on the street. Beside every bouquet she placed handwritten cards explaining their story: two sick people trying to save each other one day at a time. Customers returned. Strangers spread the story. The tiny stall slowly became something much larger through simple human compassion.

Eventually, Wang raised around 500,000 yuan — more than $90,000 — for Yu’s surgery.

And then something almost impossible happened.

Yu’s condition stabilized after his second transplant.

Meanwhile, Wang’s dialysis treatments began decreasing. Doctors told her she might not need a kidney transplant after all.

The two people who met expecting death were somehow both still alive.

In February 2015, they held a real wedding celebration with friends and family who finally learned how their relationship had truly started. Not as a romance at first, but as two desperate people trying to save each other.

Their story later inspired the 2024 Chinese film, which won multiple national awards. Today, Wang and Yu run the “Yongsheng Flower” shop in Xi’an — built from the same flower stall Wang once used to raise money for the man she believed she would someday outlive.

People often describe stories like this as miracles.

And maybe they are.

But what makes this story feel unforgettable is not only that two sick people survived.

It is that Wang Xiao refused to surrender her sense of agency even when almost every normal path disappeared.

She wrote down exactly what she needed.
She asked honestly.
She found another person who was equally broken by circumstance.
Then they slowly gave each other reasons to continue fighting.

The kidney was never donated.

Because in the end, neither of them needed it.

They were too busy learning how to live.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Oxygen already killed most of the life on Earth once. The first time it filled the air, around 2.4 billion years ago, it was so poisonous that nearly everything alive died. Scientists call it the Oxygen Catastrophe.

Back then the oceans were full of tiny microbes, and none of them used oxygen. Then one kind, an ancestor of the green scum you still see on ponds, started giving off oxygen as a waste gas, the same way you breathe out air you don’t need. Oxygen is a wrecker. It rips apart the delicate machinery inside a living cell, including the DNA, and as it built up in the water and then the sky, it triggered the first mass extinction this planet had ever seen.

A few survivors hid in the mud and deep underground where the gas couldn’t reach, and some of their descendants are still down there. But one tiny cell did something nobody else did. It ate a bacterium that had learned to use oxygen rather than die from it, and instead of digesting its meal, it kept it alive inside itself. That trapped bacterium became the mitochondria, the little engines that power your cells right now. Almost every cell you are made of carries hundreds or thousands of them, all descended from that one strange truce with a poison.

The trade was worth it because burning food with oxygen releases about 18 times more energy than burning it without. It is the reason anything can swim fast or think hard. Every big, fast-moving animal on Earth, you included, runs on the gas that almost ended life.

Oxygen changed the sky too. Some of it floated up high and turned into ozone, a thin layer that blocks most of the sun’s harshest rays. Before that shield existed, raw sunlight was strong enough to fry the DNA of anything out in the open, so life had to stay underwater, where a few feet of sea soaked up the danger. For almost two billion years, nothing lived on land at all. Only once the ozone grew thick enough, a few hundred million years ago, did the first plants and animals crawl out of the water.

And the old poison never really left. Every second, the oxygen your cells burn throws off tiny broken bits called free radicals, and they keep nicking your DNA and the proteins around it. The damage adds up, slowly, your whole life. Back in 1956 a scientist named Denham Harman suggested this slow rusting from the inside is a big reason we get old. People still argue about how much it matters, and no antioxidant pill has ever been shown to make anyone live longer, but the basic idea has held up. The gas keeping you alive right now is also quietly wearing you down, year by year. The joke just got the timing wrong. Oxygen really does kill slowly, and billions of years before we showed up, it already proved it can kill fast.

[Mind Essentials @Mind_Essentials]

Have you ever witnessed the birth of a river?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Photographer Elston Webster captures the surreal beauty of what rain looks like beneath the surface of water.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

Psychology says some people avoid socializing not because they hate people, but because they can read them too well. They walk into a room and immediately sense the fake laughs, the hidden agendas, the performances. Their nervous system doesn't misread the signal, it just refuses to ignore it. Small talk feels like a tax they didn't agree to pay. Forced smiles cost them energy that takes hours to recover. They're not broken. They're calibrated differently. They don't avoid people. They avoid emotional labor that leads nowhere. When they do connect, it's deep, intentional, real. No masks. No games. Fewer friends doesn't mean loneliness. It means higher standards. That's not antisocial behavior. That's emotional intelligence.

[Your Best Version @YourPrimePath]

She literally explained that the discomfort of discipline is nothing compared to the pain of regret.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

According to psychology, we rarely lose our temper with the people who deserve it. We snap at the ones who love us enough to forgive us.

[🦋𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒆 @yoursjessie_]

❤️✨

[✒️ @Literariium]

“You won't find the same person twice, not even in the same person”

— Mahmoud Darwish

[Purely Green @worldclick56]

Peace 🍃

[𝑎𝑒𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑟𝑡 @huariqueje]

I love watching the stars💫

[Purely Green @worldclick56]

Listen to the rain 🌧️🍃