A place where I collect all things meaningful to me. A place where I manage to ignore adulthood a little while longer. A place where I get to be myself more than in reality.
you will feel so alive again.. like so incredibly alive. i dont know when that will be but it will be. u are gonna feel so alive that ur cheeks hurt from smiling oh man oh man i promise that day is coming. you do have a future, you do have good things coming, and you’ll survive everything that’s thrown at you until you reach that day
No but seriously. Normalize finding love in your 40's. Normalize discovering and chasing new dreams in your 30's. Normalize finding yourself and your purpose in your 50's. Life doesn't end at 25. Let's stop acting like it does.
i sometimes forget that this is everyone’s first time on earth too. like. this is my first time seeing a butterfly this color. but its that little girl’s first time seeing any butterfly, ever. and i accidentally left a bag of groceries at the store after paying and now i’m cursing under my breath and it’s like. there a thousand other people out there who did that today too. and a thousand more from yesterday. and. like. we’re not actually alone. and we’re not actually failing. at least not in a way that a few billion people haven’t before you
Friendly reminder that no one can give 100% all the time in a relationship. It is normal to fluctuate. Things will not always be 50/50. In fact, it’s rare they will be.
Sometimes, my depression is really bad and I’m only able to give 20%. My partner steps up and gives a bit more. Sometimes he’s have an exceptionally bad week at work, and I need to step up a bit.
This becomes a problem if it’s always one person giving all the effort. But it is absolutely normal for things to fluctuate and not be even all the time.
Sometimes both my partner and I can only give 40%. In those situations, we sit down and come up with possible compromises, a game plan and check in with each other when we can.
I bring this up in response to asks in my askbox about my “can you love me harder today?” post where they say that your loved ones should always love you as hard as possible. And it’s not realistic.