One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.
This is the magic lucky word count. Reblog for creativity juice. It might even work, who knows.
I want to write you an escape.
A pocket of happy time and space.
Where you're okay.
In the mountains, in a tree, in a nothing of muted pastels.
Just somewhere where you can sing,
and your fingers don't sting from strumming.
And our lungs can go on for forever.
I can write up that sort of escape with ink and paper and imagination.
The clouds would be puffy, and grass would be wet beneath our bare feet.
The longing and worry and confusion of yesterday would slip through our fingers.
We’d watch the drops puddle and tumble and fall through the cracks out of existence.
We would stay and it falls away.
And the rain blows and the wind smiles and the leaves sing.
Nothing makes any sense, but we are safe.
Yet that place, it's not...real.
The world collapses around us and I am left with ink on paper that I can't see clearly.
Your eyes are downcast and clouded.
You can’t see my words.
I don’t know how to cocoon you in that existence.
But then you take my hand and we run away.
And we make our own escape of flesh and blood and brick.
We joke in puddles of blankets and you play your ukulele.
And yet we have to leave for the bathroom.
The conversation is jolted and a little awkward at times.
Your fingers grow tired, and strings get off key, but we are here.
We made it.
And it's just the sort of escape we needed.
adhd is fun bc everything I got taught is backwards
a good day makes good sleep
starting with a lil treat gets the work done
More things to do is less overwhelming
don’t make a plan just get in there
you’ll never take good care of what you don’t like so throw it out (this one is my favorite bc it’s easy to see what you don’t like)
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you think you are something less real than you are by Wendy Xu
im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary