SUNDAY, February 15th

GIVE UP…stop dancing and cry

hey weeping willows and withered wonders! join your hosts:

Dntel

frosty

and super sorry guests:

KOZYndan

Carlos Nino

for an evening full of the saddest songs plus eye-watering visions projected by the Masses.

FREE / 21+ / 9pm-2am

The Hyperion Tavern

1941 Hyperion Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90027

hyperiontavern.com

Thanks to our resident pouting painter Kime Buzzelli for the Give Up image above.

If you are getting no love this Valentine's day, come and kozy will make your cry the pain away.

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.

learninginlife.com/give-up/

Dont giveup

A man is not finished when he is defeated. A man is finished when he gives up.

I know this is a subject that we are "not allowed" to talk about, as it is taboo for most people. If this is you please do not read further as it will just upset you. I know I have never been allowed to talk about this, those close to me forbid me to broach the subject. This is why I have decided to be free here - I can make this decision to have a voice.

I’ve lived for about 20 years under abuse (in my mid-twenties now). I was abused as a child by two different men, they were not aware of each other. I finally broke free from that when I was 17 and spent 2 years being “free” in denial. I met a boy who saw the signs of abuse in me and purposefully chose me to date (he told me this). He was cruel and abusive to me in every way that you can imagine for 5 (almost 6) years. I didn’t know I could get away. I was used to being stuck, I was conditioned to react this way while I was a toddler.

I didn’t even know I was in trouble or needed help until it was too late.

I never reached out for help even though I knew I was suffering mentally and had PTSD by the time I was 15. I didn't know I had an eating disorder for a long time, until people started noticing my ribs sticking out and I was forced into an eating disorder program. I didn't know I was depressed and suicidal until I decided to kill myself a few months ago. I was very effectively living in denial.

But now I am trying to get better - I am going to therapy and working on my mental health. I really want to erase the past. I want a fresh start, one that doesn't include me, an innocent child, on the sexual menu for grown men.

I'm a realist though and I know I have to accept my past and try to live in a world full of people who I do not trust.

It is my hope that other people might see this image and hear my story and gain strength to tell their own - or flee from the people who are hurting them. It is possible to get help. There are good people out there, you just have to look really hard to find them - it is worth the effort.

The statement that is pictured was said to me by the second man to sexually abuse me.

Photographs are © Copyright Galactic Dreams (or others when indicated) and are not in the public domain and may not be used on blogs, websites, or in other media without advance written permission from Galactic Dreams.

Give up, ?Indsey, cork, tck, inb, smok

Just like how u were.

ingivingup.blogspot.com/

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Taken during a frosty winter morning [28 Dec 2014(6:44 AM)].

1st time in my life I have seen temperatures below freezing in Delhi/NCR, this pic was taken by HTC Desire 501, focus always remains a problem in phones, but I never giveup, and almost everytime I succeed.

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This is dedicated to all the losers out there who are never going to amount to anything. You suck at life people...why even try? And to K-State fans...Riight, like THAT's gonna happen.

All in good fun, of course....you're all winners and don't you forget it. Well, except you K-State fans. I just feel sorry for you. lol

For 365, Bokeh Wednesday and FGR's group pick Motivation Parody.

THE PELICAN BRIEFING

This guy tries swallowing a huge carp, way bigger than I thought they could manage. I wonder if they giveup after awhile and just set it free.

give up was in my neighborhood this past week - Houston, Texas

Finding "Give Up" on the road to Fredericksburg was SUCH a bonus.

When toys get a hold of spray paint...

R - Rest, relax, ...

1/500s . f/5.6 . ISO 80 . 16.8 mm

I finally listened to the parrot on my shoulder and quit smoking. 36 hours in and so far so good.

Update: 1 week in and still so far so good!

businessmen everywhere, all together as one: give up!

have fun with this, you deleteme meanies! :)

Thai way...

that was so long ago, and it was never okay, I was just more ignorant, immature, and better at pretending.

she's the girl that believe that what comes around goes around. The one that hopes for a better day. The one that won't give up on you. She's the girl that's unlike the rest. The one that spent her days smiling, and her nights crying. She's the girl that would love to be loved. The one that looks so damn strong, but feels so weak. She's the girl that picks herself up everytime she falls.