#on wanting

[akindplace]

I think when you grow up lacking material things, lacking affection or any form of stability, you end up saving everything for later in a constant fear of running out or you end up being so ashamed of asking people for help, for a job, for any kindness and then ending up being denied, that you don’t dare asking, even if you have financial stability and good relationships in the present as an adult. You end up self-sabotaging in fear of what it might mean to desire something and not have it. The more you want, the more you abstain and the bigger that sort of empty craving gets. Don’t feel guilty for the seemingly enormity of your own needs, because the more you abstain from them, the bigger they get. Don’t let your soul starve. Don’t let yourself run on empty. Don’t let the emptiness grow into a pit. Don’t save happiness for later or for when you “become” a worthy person - you don’t need to earn every little thing, you don’t have to hurt yourself to be worthy of some soothing or any help.

[jeanmoreaux]

Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things (2015)

[rzmusings]

from my notes: dealing with a breakup

[ashiqui]

i prayed this one word. — mia, 25.07.2024

[a-study-in-bullshit]

want vs need

[unluckyepiphany]

everyone always says needs are deeper than wants, but it's wanting things that ends up breaking me down, and then the needs seem so small compared to the wants. i need to learn how to extinguish that habit.

[thismustbeso]

“Want is this awful thing that you know you should not have or let rule you, but it can gouge a hole in you.”

The Control Systems of Desire, Cara Ellison (from “The Secret Lives of Geek Girls”)

[leonardcohenofficial]

hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

[crythartic]

* Won't you play again, Kris?

[queerstudiesnatural]

greta thunberg, liam cunningham, rima hassan, and everyone else on that ship, thank you, and i hope you succeed. i really hope you succeed. you know what you are risking, and i wish for you to come back safely, having done what you set out to do.

[rzmusings]

there's a madness in those eyes. its jagged edges line your irises, attempting to pour through your pupil. i wonder what you see, looking at me under its tint— your grin gleams as you bare your teeth at me.

it's as though you've witnessed the erratic heartbeat of life and traced over its jugular with your canines. it's excited you. filled you with a desire to sink your teeth into it, just to see what living tastes like.

— an appetite for life.

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[miikpal]

battered and bruised

[rapidhighway]