The World Is Cruel, Therefore I Won't Be.

— The world is cruel, therefore I won't be.

I know kindness exists!

I exist!

And I am kind!

And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

— Richard Siken;

— Perhaps nothing else on Earth matters, besides the love you take in, and the love you put out.

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‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs

i keep thinking about how it feels as if we have developed ourselves an obsession with "healing" these days – and a friend said something that really stuck in my head – "if you're part of a community where you're always trying to heal, then that means that you always need to be sick". like i think that we're all taking this ideal of healing too far saying that everybody needs therapy all the time and resetting your gut biome or surrounding yourself with positive energy or whatever it is that you can come up with. you're always focusing on something that is "wrong" and that needs to be eliminated, after which everything will be okay again. it all sounds like just another way of maintaining an illusion of control over your life and i don't think it's doing us any good

I learn everything the hard way btw

"I'm proud of you"

"what for? being alive?"

"of course, you didn't want to"

my 5 year plan is to get back my joy