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i love the rain. especially listening to it.
im living the lesbian/pansexual dream. sitting under my veranda, in a rocking chair, listening to the rain on the roof.
pitter patter, pitter patter.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but I just wanted to remind you that life isn’t a competition or a constant self-improvement project. You don’t have to be better or “prettier” or smarter than anyone else and you don’t have to overwork yourself to be deserving of rest. You are not behind. And it’s totally ok to find happiness or fulfillment in a life that others don’t understand. It’s ok if success looks different for you than it does to someone else. I just wanted to remind you that you are enough. You always have been. 🩷
7 Happy Places
Hey Beautiful People, it's been a little while. Here's a fun post. Where is your Happy Place? I'd love to hear.
A Raw Unedited Entry from My Hand-Written Journal--My Dream
“31.10
My dream is to one day soon live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, or maybe somewhere in Washington, with no technology. I want to bring a whole library of books, a car, an iPod, a type write or MAYBE a laptop with only Word on it. I want to wakeup before sunset every day and hike while the sun is rising. I want to maybe go fishing. I will search the forest for treats...I won’t even need to shower. I can meditate. Maybe I’ll occasionally drive to the ocean and explore the area. I can find farmers’ markets and only buy from small businesses. I’ll have a garden next to my cabin. I can write a book, some poetry, a biography. I can journal. I could bring Bodhi (my Bernese Mountain Dog) to keep me company. Or maybe Louis + Barkley (my other two dogs). I’ve been dreaming about this for a while now and I might have to do it this summer. Maybe Ray + Anna will be nearby and they’ll be able to visit me.
I’d only use snailmail and I’d be so isolated I would have to row to the mainland everyday.
I want this so badly.
I need this.
Then I might feel happy.”
--I wrote this late at night and I was in a pensive mindset. I was drawing a lot in my journal and I started to draw a picture of what happiness looked like to me, so i decided to add an accompanying description. Me writing this does not mean that I am not happy, it is just an alternative happiness. One that is less complicated, more straight-forward, and probably happier...
a confidence in the heart, a tranquility in the mind
I miss being alone in my room surrounded by books. I miss the quiet and natural sounds of the forest. 🌲🌲🌲 I've been quite inactive on tumbler the last few months (sorry about that), because i'm in the military in The Kings Guard, stationed in the capital💂💂. The biggest problem for an introvert in the military is without doubt being surrounded by so many peoole all the time, having no personal space and the constant sensory input/overload😩 But then again, it is just another challenge to overcome. I'm hoping to become more active while i'm still in the military.
Black and wide
The silence fills infinity
Calm and quiet
I float in deep tranquility
Tranquil #Waterfall in the middle of nowhere.
Some days are so beautiful and melancholy that you feel your heart bleeding out as the light inevitably fades from them, stopping as night falls and waiting to be reawakened by the arrival of another day some incalculable amount of time away in the unknowable future that will bring back this nameless feeling that is now crystallized in your memories.
Unpopular opinion of Marcus Aurelius – and highly thought-provoking:
“In comparing sins (the way people do) Theophrastus says that the ones committed out of desire are worse than the ones committed out of anger: which is good philosophy. The angry man seems to turn his back on reason out of a kind of pain and inner convulsion. But the man motivated by desire, who is mastered by pleasure, seems somehow more self-indulgent, less manly in his sins.
Theophrastus is right, and philosophically sound, to say that the sin committed out of pleasure deserves a harsher rebuke than the one committed out of pain. The angry man is more like a victim of wrongdoing, provoked by pain to anger. The other man rushes into wrongdoing on his own, moved to action by desire.” © Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”.
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