it doesn’t matter how good your arguments are
it doesn’t matter how eloquent your conversation is
it doesn’t matter how coherent you are
it doesn’t matter how right you are
you’ll always be told you’re overreacting
you’ll always be told you shouldn’t be so angry
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My parents always tell me
to never fall in love with someone else
who has baggage.
The problem with that is it disproves this fact:
you have been places and you
are going places, separately from and with me.
I want to lie down in bed with you
and have you lay out all of your suitcases.
I want you to show me the dress you
wore when you were seven and that neighborhood
girl, Sara, kissed you on the nose.
I want you to show me the pair of shoes
you wore when we first met, with your
shoe laces so dirty from walking
around this city and finding pieces
of yourself in the alleyways.
Please lay out that gown you wore
those three days when you were in the hospital
with scars on your skin because
it was easier to hate yourself than to love.
Please let me hold that bracelet
you threw into the Ocean from the first
boy that broke your heart and ended up
kissing another girl that same night
and taking her home, fucking her
so hard that the Milky Way wasn’t
a good enough metaphor
to articulate how he felt coming
home.
I will dress you up in my
eighteen year old skin where B.
and I sat instead of danced during
prom, crying over certain things
that we could not keep inside for
much longer. I will let you wear
that sweater I wore the first night
I kissed you underneath a street lamp,
as the snow was falling into the light,
I was falling into you, wholeheartedly.
I will let you wear that shirt you slipped
over your self after that first night we spent
together, in bed, learning how to love someone
properly, in a more physical sense than ever before.
And then I want to pack all of these bags
and stuff them back into our lungs,
so that our histories will always leak out of
our breath. We will not forget
how heavy we felt once and how light we feel now,
in comparison. I want to know your history, simply,
even the darkest corners, so maybe me being there
will make them lighter and make both of us
appreciate the dim light of the Moon
because it was there, even if we did not always
notice it.
Andrew M., Going / Growing (via deliciates)
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Such a funny thing to fear food. How can you look at a muffin and be scared? Why is yogurt okay, but ice cream be the start of tears? How can steak make you worry? How can restaurants cause such chaos? …it’s just food. Right? Why am I so scared of food?
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Be your own hero
Do your own saving
Buy yourself flowers
Be your own lover
Be your own fighter
Don’t wait
Fall in love with yourself
Your body isn’t to be politicized
Fall out of love with yourself
Don’t let your dreams get the best of you
It’s hard to stay grounded
Do things to make your heavy heart lighter
Rome wasn’t built in a day, same goes for your life.
These things take time.
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really though
if breasts, butts and legs are so distracting to men, to the point they cant function
why arent they that distracting to lesbians
and at that point
why isnt the penis bulge and legs not distracting enough to gay men to warrant men being put under the same dress codes
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V
Everyone has their own troubles.
They shouldn't be caught up with mine.
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I don't want to live with people.
I crave to live alone.
I'll just continue my cat collection.
I already have five.
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The more I love myself, the more others will love me.
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I've lived in this house all my life and I've been too sentimental to leave it.
But as it's becoming more and dilapidated, I feel my attachment to this place crumble away too.
Soon I'll be ready to leave.
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There needs to be a code word or something that means “my brain is fighting me every step of the way today and I feel like I’m going to vibrate out of my skin, so I need you to forgive everything and go slowly and speak softly and lower your expectations.” And then we could all just be like, “I know I said we could go to a movie tonight but… tangerines.” And the other person would nod and squeeze your elbow or rub your head and you wouldn’t feel like a failure.
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this is the #1 thing i struggle with
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