The Tears That Got Me Here
You were born to be remarkable. This difficult time isn’t a useless delay of what you should become, what you should achieve, what you should be doing instead. This difficult time is your body waking up to what suffering feels like. You’re learning about the different shapes that sadness can take in someone’s life. This is an important phase for yo... See more
Fwd: 'I'm Too Lazy and Mediocre to Deserve the Life I Want!'
“Grief, by its nature, is cyclical. It gives us the promise of peace at its end.”
To share parts of ourselves as a way of undoing aloneness, as a method of connection, as a form of putting words to something someone else might not yet have the words for, feels like shining a flashlight on something that would otherwise stay hidden, or as Ocean Vuong said, building fire escapes for each other.
“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w
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