You’re smiling at me like the gate is closed and there’s nowhere for me to go.
You’re smiling like I still want you
through all the slurring, the blurring of your addiction and the cold, long winter of your silence.
You’re smiling like we’re living a party, baby and my eyes aren’t on that neon exit.
You’re smiling like I’m a boomerang, destined to circle back right into your hand
to relive that experience.
Your biggest insult to me.
— s. lee { x }
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
— Mitch Albom
03/25/2021+03/26/2021
The unconscious act of clinging to one’s tangible emotions removes all possibility of these coming into existence.
The backwards law plays a paramount role in these cases.
Trying to draw out something,which not even the owner can feel on command is foolish.
It’s like stomping on the ground and then start fishing,meanwhile believing to go home with a handful of goods.
To actually be able to accomplish what you set out to do,you have to immerse yourself in the environment and follow where the current brings you.
Then,and only then,the reward will come to you.
The focus should not be one’s own emotions,and therefore not even themselves as a person.
Shifting it on a purpose beside that which has been the constant object of such attention,would prove benefiting for the primary objective itself.
For one to receive love,they must first know how it would feel before being able to open the doors to it.
By bestowing close ones with your own small acts of love,each in their different shape,will open the one-sided path of love.
Do not covet from others what you have never given to them.
03/10/2021
It wasn’t a long time ago,though it supposedly was.
Here I laid,in this same bed,hugging my covers as tightly as I could,
genuinely wishing to become one with them and vanish in that exact moment.
It felt like a void,the harshest and heaviest one could experience within their bodily existence.
My mind,an abyss.
My body,an havoc.
Somewhere,somehow,I envisioned a version of me which could grasp that forlorn warmth.
She welcomed it in the most easy-going manner,very-well knowing how fleeting that emotion would be.
It was not light,nor was it fuzzy,or bubbling or anything at all.
It just was.
It was right.
May it be precognition or the strength of my will,I do know that THAT was the precursor to who I am now.
I’m alive,living who I yearned to be.
And a lot more than than that as well.
“But just because you’re strong and resilient doesn’t mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.”
— Tammara Webber
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (via philosophybits)
02/03/2021
It’s not me.
It wasn’t me being so out of it that everything seemed dull.
There was and there is a reason.
No overthinking ended up being futile insofar as it became a starting point for a new series of events.
Things started making sense as some behaviors connected themselves with words spoken by the people in question.
Incongruent actions were carried out by people who are no more coherent themselves.
It’s okay as much as it will not worsen.
I will not just bear with it and that is a given.
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My world has yet to change.
What has fundamentally morphed is only myself,albeit I have to carry on like this for a while longer.
I must work on myself without trying to find distractions,whether they force themselves in my life or I let them in willingly.
It all depends on my capability of consciously making the decisions which are waiting in line and have been for a while.
The Letter I was Afraid to Send
It wasn’t that the feeling for you wasn’t there. It wasn’t that the love I have for you was momentary and based on temporary stimulations - I just wasn’t ready.
Thank you for being who you are, for the man you are. I wasn’t ready for the direction you were heading in. I wasn’t ready to hold your hand and be your eyes when you lose your way. I wasn’t ready to be part of a storyline that I felt I felt I had no part in.
Parts of me were scared of you, scared of the depths that exist within you. My own biggest fear was that my own inhibitions would throw rocks on your path and slow you down from getting to your destination. I was scared my flaws hindered you from being the man you want to be. I was scared that my own shortcomings would become your shortcomings because pain has a way becoming contagious when you’re in a relationship with someone who feels as deep as you do.
At that time, I felt that I was being considerate. Now I realize how selfish I was I can admit I should’ve been better and that you definitely deserve better
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel (via perfeqt)
The scariest part of a depressive episode isn't crying due to the intense sadness and pain, but when you can't.
Art by Claralieu