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Have the courage to exist.
Hello internet.
Today, October 10th, is World Mental Health Day and as a cause very close to my heart I am releasing a new range of merch where all proceeds will go to the charity I represent - Young Minds, to help fight for young people’s mental health.
In 2014 I made the video ’Existential Crisis’ where I dropped the surprisingly profound quote ‘Embrace the void and have the courage to exist’. This was a message that in a universe that won’t give you the answers, it’s up to you give your life meaning in whatever way makes you happy.
In the years since uploading this video, I’ve spoken to many people who have told me how those words resonated with them and inspired actions, art (and even a few tattoos) so I thought this would be the perfect way to put some goodness back into the world and give you courage when you need it.
As of now the quote is available as both a simple black (of course) t-shirt:
And a flag for you to pin up on a wall like a poster, raise on a pole ..or just wear like a cape if you feel like it:
When it comes to mental health I know all too well how difficult it can be just to exist, but days like this where people come together to show support for each other and raise awareness show that none of us are alone. A year on since I posted ‘Daniel and Depression’, where I was open about my struggles with mental health, I feel so much support from people around the world and pride that what I did may have helped others. I encourage anyone reading this who sympathises not to struggle in silence and otherwise to reach out to the ones you love and tell them you are there, it could make all the difference.
I hope that you like the sentiment and please get involved to support a wonderful charity, and as I said in a recent live show - if I can make it through life to this point, so can you.
Thanks
Dan
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I MET DAN AND PHIL... AGAINGo watch me interacting with my favorite introverts, @danielhowell and @amazingphil! ❤️
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Infinity War: The ones we leave behind - 2018
My series of 10 artworks devoted to Infinity War. Note: The empty room is Wanda’s. You can see it in Civil War.
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© Jenny Anderson
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TOM HOLLAND
Photographed by James Dunn
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New video!I react to the new songs @panicatthedisco dropped today and they are BOPS.
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Another installment of a poem that no one asked for, but I needed to write it.
I visit your castle often.
When I make it to your front door, I look up.
I look up to see you looking down on me from your tower again.
And then I see you turn away.
My heart leaps, thinking you’re coming down to open the door and let me in.
So I wait.
And I wait.
I wait some more until I realize that you aren’t coming down.
You’ll never let me in.
So I give up.
I too turn away and go back home.
Back to my own castle of loneliness.
With an ache in my chest and tears in my eyes,
I start to think that no one will ever love me.
I have no one but myself now.
That’s how it always has been.
That’s how it always will be.
But I’m done wasting my time on a boy in a castle who doesn’t care about me.
A boy who’s too high up in his tower to bother with me.
I’m done with caring too much and getting nothing in return.
But someday, there will be another boy who comes to my castle.
I will look down on him from my tower
Just as you did to me.
And I will turn away from him
Just as you did to me.
But I will come down from my tower to let him in.
Maybe someday you’ll visit my castle too,
But it’ll be too late.
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We all thought Loki was the odd one out but it turns out Thor is actually the friendly jock middle child in a family of bitchy drama club goths
