I Am, Unfortunately, A Victim Of This. I Was A Whole Ass Achiever With Extracurriculars Meanwhile He

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i fixed you while i was bleeding too

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last. Every morning she was asleep in my bed like a visitation, the gentleness in her like antelope standing in the dawn mist. Each afternoon I watched her coming back through the hot stony field after swimming, the sea light behind her and the huge sky on the other side of that. Listened to her while we ate lunch. How can they say the marriage failed? Like the people who came back from Provence (when it was Provence) and said it was pretty but the food was greasy. I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

-Jack Gilbert, “Failing and Flying” from Refusing Heaven

It’s good to grow and learn to be better. But that doesn’t mean your past self was bad or unworthy or anything like that.

Your past self got you through everything, no matter how hard that might have been. And no matter how much you might think you could have done better.

The important thing is you’re here now and even if your past self didn’t do their best, they still survived and got you here.

NASA’s final transmission to Opportunity was Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You”

#ThanksOppy

sent a follow req and he accepted like a few mins later 🤣 maybe it’s a way to see who he could follow back 👀

It’s so funny to me that Victor Mancini still has his Instagram private as if he doesn’t accept every request going through

Why limit yourself between choosing a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? If Persephone can be the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld at the same time so can you.

so luke is gonna have quinn and jack cheering him on during playoffs

that’s their baby 😭

Post 5 -they both die at the end

adam silvera must be the most talented writer of the century to be able to trick almost all of his readers into thinking rufus and mateo would survive even though the title of the book is literally ‘they both die at the end’. still can’t believe i fell for that trickery

“Ang pag ibig na kayang magpakawala, nananatili. Ang pag ibig na kayang bumitiw, nangangako.” — Raoul Vesarius Riego (Sands of Time)

Do you know how much it sucks? Losing a best friend? Like actually losing your other and better half? Losing someone you talked to every day, all the time? Someone you looked forward to talking to regardless of what it was, even if it was a fight? Losing someone you gave everything to, to the point where I have nothing else to give anyone else, when the other person can’t even give you the time of day? Losing the person you’d spend every day with if you could? The one person that made you smile. The person that hurt you a million times, over and over, but you still forgave them and would do it all over again if given the chance. The person you do give anything just to see them more time.

Do you really know?