“Reading Was Like An Addiction; I Read While I Ate, On The Train, In Bed Until Late At Night, In School,

Slow down, it's ok. Very few things in life are absolute

Deadlines can be flexible, career paths are flexible, relationships become close and far and close again, it's all going to be ok

i love this shit i need more examples

“Saying i love you every minute lessens the meaning” um to YOU….freak.

all desire is an articulation of ache, as is every horror. the story starts the same: w/ an absence

It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.

Saturday, 27 July 2024

Some nights I think I’m very brave to even have the courage to wake up the next morning

on shame and yearning (pt.2)

“Fall in love gently. Remind yourself that you are the longest relationship of your life. Remind yourself that you are a child of this universe and that you are worthy of happiness. Fall in love with the way you feel things deeply. The color of someone’s laughter. The texture of someone’s kindness. The nostalgia of going back to places that caused you so much pleasure and pain. You are an old soul trapped in a body that’s slowly, slowly decaying. You are a traveler of both the outer world and the inner world. Fall in love with your failures. The events that shaped you into becoming who you are today. Embrace your shortcomings for they serve as a lesson in your formless memory. Forgive yourself for everything that is causing you so much pain. It is a brutal process, and you must get through it. Self-hate can only generate more worry in your life. Let it go. You don’t have to carry it forever. Fall in love with your body. Romanticize it. The freckles on your face are constellations. The heart-shaped birthmark right behind your hips. The positive aura of your gummy smile. The way that your body is working hard to keep you alive like electricity lighting up a whole city on a cloudless night. Fall in love with your existence. The little things that make you who you are. The poetry that you write. The instrument that you play. The way you put your makeup on as you face another challenging day. These little things that make you who you are come from the way you express your being. Fall in love with yourself until you finally feel like home.”

— Juansen Dizon, Soft Reminders  (via juansendizon)

“Some words stay in your head long after they’re spoken.”

— A List of Cages - Robin Roe, Hyperion, 2017

“I feel like some books should be labeled ‘This could save your life’ because in my most hopeless times they were the ones that kept me here. They were the ones that helped me regain my sanity, and they were the ones that made me feel like my suicidal thoughts will heal in time.”

— juansen dizon, On Bibliotherapy