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Advice I gave someone today was: 'do it stupid.'

She wants to learn photography. Do it stupid. Take a million photos. Don't think about why they're not good. Enjoy the process of taking photos.

Pick out tge ones you like the most and figure out why you like them. Is it because the subject is centered? Is it because you caught them doing something cool? Is it because the light made cool shadows?

Do it stupid. If you try to do it smart, youll get stuck. If you think too much you'll never get to doing. Do it stupid.

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When it comes to phrases and sayings, I've noticed that a good way to test their validity is to see if they also work in reverse.

"What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger" - If something isn't making you stronger, it's killing you.

"If it looks stupid but it works, it's not stupid" - If something looks smart on paper but doesn't work in practice, it's still stupid.

"Treat others as you would wish to be treated" - Don't treat yourself worse than you would treat a stranger.

"Any job worth doing is worth doing well" - if something's not worth doing, it's not worth half-assing either.

"When there's a will, there's a way" - If you truly do not want to do something, it will be impossible no matter how easy it should be.

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to my thirteen year old self; limbs too long for her body, shaky hands attempting to cradle the world—

take a picture. it'll last longer.

no, really. take a picture.

take your stupid selfies and don't feel ashamed about your beaming grins and puckered lips and crinkled eyes; take your silly photos of your friends running around and being teenagers and never expect anything to change, ever; take your carefully posed shots of ice cream and chai lattes and don't even hesitate before posting it.

and take a photo of your crush as he plays guitar; as he balances a toddler on his hip; as they laugh; as she pulls her hair into a ponytail; as he wades into the sea; as she throws her head back like lightning. one day your feelings will fade but in the moment you're incandescent and brilliant like stardust, and don't you want to remember that? don't you want to be weightless again?

because one day you'll be eighteen and on a cliff's edge, and you'll look back at yourself and your memories and you'll think god, what a time. what a time to be alive. what a time to love and to lose and to love once again.

to my thirteen year old self; dust in her hair, too much love in her heart—

do you think of me softly? do you love who i'll become?

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"INVISIBLE"

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"BURDEN"

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"SURVIVING"

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"MERCY"

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When did life get so hard? I keep asking myself over and over again when I felt the shift, I leaf through the memories as if there was a moment it changed. But when I look back on my life I don’t remember a time where existing didn’t feel hard.

I look in the mirror and see a little girl who felt so alone, who felt like she could crawl out of her skin before she could ride a bike, who was touched and couldn’t sleep because she thought she didn’t deserve to feel rested. There is a girl who so desperately needed to be loved and she doesn’t know there is a such thing as feeling peace and hope.

My 26 year old self sees the 6 year old me and weeps. The 20 years in between us feels smaller than I hoped. I wanted so badly for her to not grow up into someone who bore scares on her arms and didn’t know how to love properly.

So I will get up off the floor. I will let the scars heal and I will do better by my children. I will love and protect like my life depends on it. I will do it for the girl who I couldn’t be. For the girl who needed someone like me. For the girl that still lives inside of me. I will do more than just survive - I will live.

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I don't want a romantic partner I want friends who will go dumpster diving with me, I want neighbors who will knock on my door and ask for butter because they forgot to buy some and it's sunday. I want book shelves in public spaces, food banks and shared tool sheds and community gardens. I want to trade home grown tomatoes for a couple of eggs with my neighbor and I want to bring food over to my friends house when I've cooked too much. I want bicycle only streets and I want people to go on spontaneous walks with. I want people to ask me for help when they need it and I want to be able to ask for help in return. I want community as a safety net. I want people to stop focusing on the vague concept of the one, who will Cure All Isolation and Loneliness. I want every single person to be able to find support and comfort around them, regardless of their relationship status.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Alanis Morissette

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#I see Sam is having a moment #love that for her #she was one of my favorite characters, sad she was only there for a little bit #Lena luthor #Sam arias #kara danvers #supergirl #supercorp

Reminder you are not a burden and if someone says you are I will beat their fucking ass

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I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little.

But I was little too.

— Franz Kafka, from letters to his father

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