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There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn’t. There’s a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn’t need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don’t romanticize life like you can’t survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn’t any less beautiful, I promise.

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16 year old Ryan and Chelsie? :) :)

Haha, here you go. You hit the gold mine this time! I included a timeline of us in photos together….because I seriously adore this guy and it made me so happy to look at all these photos again. Hope you don’t mind. :) 

We started out two little silly pies. 

And then we met as those awkward 11 and 12 year olds

And then I started liking him back….and he asked my dad’s permission to take me to homecoming and give me my first kiss. I was 16 and he was 15. We were definitely awkward here. :)

And then he turned 16 and I turned 17 the next year  :)

And then the next year when I turned 18 and he turned 17 :)

Then we went overseas together and we decided we knew marriage was in the future.

And then I cut my hair all off and turned 19 and graduated with my AA and went away to college

And then I figured out how madly in love with Ryan I was and came home and he graduated college and my hair started getting long again

And then Ryan went away at school and was poor and lived in his car for a while and I used to drive to meet him at Starbucks an hour away and we fell in love all over again in that little Starbucks and it was wonderful.

And then he proposed when he was 19 and I was 20

and then we got married on the most beautiful day of my life… only a few months later…..because, in our hearts, we knew we were always meant to be together since we were 12 years old.

and now we are married and it was the greatest decision we ever made.

and there’s is the beginning of our adventure together. (and if you’re still following me after this ridiculous overload of Chelsie & Ryan photos, I will love you forever :) 

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my mad fat diary - (little things that may have gone unnoticed)

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The greatest prison that people live in is the fear of what other people think.

David Icke (via winterkristall)

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1. Know that you are still blooming, and this is okay. 2. Write handwritten love notes to the parts of yourself you hate. 3. Find the comfort in holding your own hand. 4. Remember, even clouds cry sometimes. 5. Date yourself. Get to know yourself again. 6. Learn how to be alone without feeling lonely. 7. Do something that scares you every day, no matter how small. Watch your life change. 8. Stop wishing for a vacation and make your life into something you don’t wish to escape from. 9. Recognize that the best artists color outside the lines. You have the same freedom in your life. Break conventions. 10. Go to the florist on the corner and buy yourself some flowers. Spoil yourself. You deserve it. 11. Throw out your premeditated list of qualities for your perfect mate. That special person is not a recipe or equation. Humans are more than that. 12. Share your testimony. Our story is meant to be heard. Find your voice. 13. Wish to be more like rain than snow. Snow is frigid and hardens. Rain is vulnerable and soft. 14. Look at your veins. They are roots, and your limbs are branches. Your body is a strong tree. Don’t you dare cut it down. 15. Strive to have the humility as the sun. It shines brilliantly every day without needing anyone to notice. 16. Flip through old photos and reminisce about the past, but do not live there. Nothing new happens there. 17. Dust off the fingerprints of any past lover left on your skin. You belong only to yourself. 18. Become the person you’d like to fall in love with. 19. Loving yourself again will be like putting on eyeglasses. The blur will fade and you will see yourself for what you truly are: beautiful.

Kayla Hollatz - 19 Ways To Start Loving Yourself Again (via thetalltwig)

This made me cry

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indie & bambi & travel

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indie & travel

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indie & travel

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indie & travel

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indie & travel