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Don’t be afraid to distance yourself from everyone + everything. Sort out your thoughts. breathe. read a book. Listen to music. Go for a walk. write about how much your life has sucked but then write about how much you can’t wait to see the positive changes and what life has in store for you. Find yourself. accept all the hurt and chaos you’ve endured. forgive those who have hurt you. Forgive yourself. even if that means doing it within, and never physically or verbally reaching out. let go. & rejuvenate. take a step away from the chaos, and find peace for you from within. -TashellAngelina

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“Are You A Feminist?” I am five years old. My mother just told me to go fetch a sweater because an adult man would be coming over soon, and I need to cover up. I am seven years old. A boy wouldn’t stop chasing me on the playground and throwing rocks at me. I’m upset. My best friend says it’s because he likes me and she told me boys are mean to girls they like. I am ten years old. We just had our first health class in school. The teachers were trying to educate us on sexual assault. After class, my friends told me to scream fire instead of rape if I’m ever being attacked, because no one will come if they hear the word rape being screamed. I am twelve years old. I just got my first period. A pad fell out of my book bag at school and everyone started laughing. Apparently, periods aren’t normal and they should be hidden at all costs. I am fifteen years old. I’m in the office crying because a boy I don’t know kept following me down the hallway and grabbing my ass even after I told him to stop. The administrator scolds me. “maybe you shouldn’t be wearing leggings if you don’t want that kind of attention” she sends me home with a dress code violation. She marked the “distracting” box. I am seventeen years old. I’ve just been slapped because a boy got angry with me after I wouldn’t let him put his hands down my pants. Apparently, I led him on by letting him copy my math assignment. I am twenty-one years old. My best friend has bought me special nail polish to wear to the bar. She says it changes color if it’s dipped in a drink that has a date rape drug in it. I am twenty-three years old. I’m reading this to the first class I will ever teach. A student raises her hand and says, “no offense, but doesn’t this stuff happen to every girl?” So yes, I am a feminist. And when you ask me why, I will read this to you. Again, and again, and again.

v.j.v (via badwritingsfrommetoyou)

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My parents didn't raise me to take advantage of people. My intentions will always be pure. We ain't the same.

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Vibe alone for a bit, you'll realize a lot.

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You can be in love with someone and still be better off without them.

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I’ve been inhaling and exhaling and learning to let go of all the things that hold me back. I have been tending to my heart and listening to my soul, realizing to let go and to breathe is the first step in becoming whole.

— Courtney Peppernell

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Alex Karev is dead.

I don’t know if this is a popular theory, but it’s the only one that I will believe in from now on.

In season 16, episode 16, “Leave a Light on”, Alex Karev leaves everyone he loves with only a letter to say goodbye. This is extremely out of character. He wouldn’t leave Meredith. He wouldn’t leave Jo. And definitely not for Izzie. Leaving her was one of the bravest things he’s done.

Why did he leave?

I think he was dying. I think he found out he was terminal, and he crawled off into the woods to die alone.

So what’s with the story?

In the 300th episode, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story,” (season 14, episode 7), Alex says he doesn’t need to call Izzie to see how she is. He knows. He explains to Jo that he imagined a whole life for her where she was happy. He needed to create a world where his friends could imagine him happy. He invented a place where he could disappear and hopefully, they would miss him, but not enough to come find him. If they thought he had a whole new life full of joy, they could be content with that. He didn’t want Meredith to watch another person she loves die, especially not her person. He knew Bailey would lose it if she had to see another one of her babies die.

He needed Jo mad at him so that she wouldn’t look for him but also so that she could continue on with her life. In episode 17, she says that Alex will be the reason she gets out of bed. She’s pissed and she will rise. Alex knew this about her. He knew that his death would crush her, but anger at him could fuel her. He divorced her and left her with everything so that when he died, no one would have to notify her.

The only way this Alex Karev, the Alex Karev who has lived through all he has and who has grown so much since we first met him, could leave the people he loves most was if he thought it would be best for them. He (misguidedly) broke their hearts to spare them even worse. It’s the only thing that makes sense.

Either that or he got kidnapped.

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bitches see a text and are like ‘ill reply when i have the social and emotional energy for it’ and then forget about it for a week….anyway i’m bitches

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what am i doing here?