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And Yet, We Try
Musings and a collection of beautiful words that make me feel alive
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maybe if you take a hot shower. cook something. eat a little soup. feel a little sunshine. make something with your hands—it doesn’t have to be big. maybe if you stretch your body and draw a silly little picture and get some rest, the world will feel like something your hands can still hold
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I was asked, “what is the worst emotion a human being can feel?”
I answered, “loneliness”.
Loneliness; not because of the sadness, but because of the comfort it brings. You get used to it, you make a home inside of it; you think you could fall in love with it.
Then you meet someone.
You distance yourself from that loneliness. Now you’re scared of it’s become your own worst enemy. You no longer want to make a home within it; you want to close the door, lock it and throw away the key.
You don’t know how you’ll ever truly handle being lonely again.
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I cried the first time I read this at the MoMA.
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“So much of what we learn about love is taught to us by people who never really loved us.”
— r.h. Sin
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“I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say “I see you.” I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye. I don’t push it away. I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.”
— Carolina Zacaria
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— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (via lunamonchtuna)
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“I hope one day we can forgive each other for not being what we wanted each other to be”
— Kriti G.
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moon song, phoebe bridgers / spirit hold, holly warburton / ketchum, id, boygenius / inside llewyn davis / angela deane / ivy, frank ocean / richard siken and unknown painting created by laurelhells / the only thing, sufjan stevens / a pearl, mitski
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hometowns have a thousand little ghosts pushing through the pavement that trip you up wherever you go how are we meant to live like that
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“I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.”
— Nikita Gill
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“To love anyone means to admit extinction. I tell myself this so I never fall in love, so that the fire lights just me.”
— Victoria Chang, from Obit
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I’m afraid of a lot of things, but mostly, most sincerely, I am afraid of being completely unraveled by you, and you finding nothing you want in here.
L.M. Dorsey, She Is Made of Chalk
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- Louise Glück, from Winter Recipes from the Collective
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denial. fear. longing.
donika kelly | jennifer hubbard | vàzaki nada | terry evans photography | richard siken | sierra demulder | the world to come (2020) | louise glück | anaïs nin | federico garcía lorca
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your twenties are about realising you’re not and simply aren’t going to be dazzlingly cool the way you wanted to be and tried to be in your teenage years, that you’ll never be that image you tried to chisel yourself into—but that you have grown quite accidentally and organically cool in an entirely new way and you don’t mind the unexpectedness of it. not at all
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