Jakob

[fishingirl @fishingblue202]

KILL LED HEADLIGHTS

[The Fisherman | 🥩🇨🇱 @Thefishermanm]

O velho do bairro me disse: "Não se esqueça que a bússola foi inventada antes do relógio, porque a direção é mais importante que o tempo."

[Divine @__Divine_]

At times I still wonder how a human mind brought this story line to life

[unonumero56 @unonumero_56]

Mike McFarlands last speech as Buggy

May he rest in peace ❤️

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain deletes most of your ordinary days. It keeps almost every minute of a night alone in a foreign city. What's happening there is actually one of the more beautiful things about how your nervous system works.

Your brain is a prediction machine. When it can predict everything, like your commute, your kitchen, your same six streets, it stops recording. That's why whole months at home just vanish. But put yourself somewhere it can't predict anything and the system flips. Every sign, every smell, every crosswalk registers as new information. Dopamine tags all of it as worth keeping. This is why one week abroad feels longer in memory than a month at home. Your brain literally kept more of it.

The second thing happening is quieter. At home, some part of you is always tracking how you're being perceived. Your boss, your friends, the people who knew you at 22. In a city where nobody knows your name, that entire system goes offline.

And when it goes offline, the bandwidth doesn't disappear. It gets redirected inward.

That's the "realizing how far you've come" part. Your brain is finally recording again, the self-monitoring is off, and you're far enough away from your life to see the whole shape of it at once.

You spend years too close to your own life to see it. Then one night you're crossing a street on the other side of the world, and you finally have enough distance to look.

[Jakob @JakobDanielW]

@esckla @EazyFlowin504

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Drew Brees reveals that days before the Saints’ first game back in the Superdome after Katrina, Sean Payton turned off every light in the stadium and showed the team footage of what the city of New Orleans had endured, and then said it’s only special if they win

“That was really the moment where it was sending a message to our fans and the world that New Orleans was going to come back stronger than ever. A lot of that team was new. We hadn’t stepped foot in the Superdome. Sean recognized that Monday night was going to be super emotional, so he was like, ‘Man, I’ve got to get the guys in the building so they can feel it a little bit before we just step foot in there Monday night.’”

“So Saturday night, we go in there and practice. It’s crisp, it’s fast, and then he brings us up afterward and just kills the lights in the whole Dome. Pitch black.”

“All of a sudden, up on the Jumbotron, he plays a piece of the Spike Lee documentary about Katrina. It was a recognition of what happened in this city, what this fan base had been through, what this building represented, and what we were about to embark on Monday night.”

“Bro, not a dry eye in the house. Everybody’s crying. Then the lights come up, we’re all looking at each other, and he gets up there and says, ‘I don’t need to tell you what this game on Monday night means to these people and how special it’s going to be, but it’s only special if you win.’”

“And that was it. That’s all you need. It wasn’t a feeling of pressure, it was like, man, we’ve got a responsibility. We were brought here for this. This is what we can do. This is our contribution. Let’s go freaking win for these people.”

“To me, that’s a sign of a great head coach. He identified what needed to be said in the moment and touched every guy. One of his great talents is being able to block out all that noise and narrow it down to, ‘Man, this is all I want you thinking about.’”

[*✧･ﾟ:* 𝖐𝖊𝖓𝖟𝖎𝖊 *:･ﾟ✧* @kenzie_is_lame]

Academic advisors that are getting paid $25 an hour to sit in their air conditioned office and answer phone calls 5 days a week will deadass do this to you then blame you for it

[Rage 🔞 @rageinpeople]

Making peace with the fact that some things that I really really want aren't meant for me in this life

[Dalton @daltine_cracker]

"You all"

[Jakob @JakobDanielW]

@EazyFlowin504 @neet_sol The command center 😂

[Nihal @behalnihal]

how it feels to be extremely self aware but still repeat the same self destructive patterns

[Abdul @abdule_10]

I’d fuckin kill for him after a speech like that

[micah ! @bucketszn__]

I’m a dude, he’s a dude, she’s a dude, we’re all dudes

[Not Demarcus Cousins @Lito_TheGawd]

Today Drew Brees told me he was willing to die for me. Yall quarterbacks never said nothing like that. It’s different in New Orleans.

[ESPN @espn]

"You trusted me with the soul of the city. And I would have died to protect that calling."

Drew Brees' message to New Orleans during his Hall of Fame speech ❤️

[New Orleans Saints @Saints]

Pro Football Hall of Famer, Drew Brees

[Jakob @JakobDanielW]

@gregthesorcerer @EazyFlowin504