Goodthingsinlife - Inexplicable Feelings

“Someone once asked me what depression feels like. I said ‘like a slower way of being dead’ and I know it doesn’t make any sense but that’s just the way it is. laying in bed, unable to move even though there is nothing physically wrong with you doesn’t make much sense either. A family member once asked me why at my age I didn’t have a job. I said ‘i’m sick’ and they said ‘being sad isn’t the same as being sick’ and, yeah, they’re right. being sad ISN’T the same as being sick. i can’t call in sad to work, or to school, or to anywhere else for that matter without being accused of throwing a self-pity party to which the only attendees are me and my sadness which is constantly being invalidated by those who don’t understand it, including me, because I don’t understand my sadness either. it’s difficult to admit this but the ugly truth is i have been sad for so long that I no longer remember what it’s like not be. kind of like when you have a cold and can’t breathe through your nose but instead of not being able to breathe through your nose, you can’t breathe AT ALL and all you can do is wait to suffocate while the people around you ask you what’s wrong but you can’t tell them because it wouldn’t make any sense. It never makes any sense.”

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“What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”

— Judi Fennell

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive... it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

— Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home

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“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”

— (via perfectfeelings)

“Love isn’t like it is in the books.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald; Emotional Bankruptcy