“Thank You For Misunderstanding Me, Rejecting Me And Not Seeing Me And Teaching Me To Always See Myself.”

“—in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul.”

— Anne Carson, excerpt of “XIX. From the Archaic to the Fast Self”, in Autobiography of Red

When the time comes, you will see who is fake. Do not let it be you.

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Judi Fennell

moans get a lot of attention and rightly so but - just someone's breath? hearing it change as you touch them, a gasp when you find just the right spot, getting heavier and faster when they get closer, faltering and ceasing for a moment just before they come, panting, then slowing as they wind down, lying against your chest? i am begging

Maybe I will miss the comfort of my own home when I fly away to a new one to make it my own. I will miss how the light used to pour into my room in the evenings, or how I used to take a shower while those sunrays soaked my body more than the water ever did. I will miss watching myself act out music videos in the bathroom mirror while I'm taking a shower. I may miss the cold breeze of early winter and the hot showers I took then. But one thing I know for sure, is that I will try to find beauty wherever I go.

Whatever space I fill, wherever in the world that may be, I will always find things to be grateful for. I will find beauty in mundane activities.

That is the promise I'm making to myself inorder to feel alive, and not just be it.