Userlt55 - 🪷

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mortifying ordeal, etc. 🕊

(claire schwartz / coco mellors)

“Llegamos a amar nuestro deseo, y no al objeto del mismo.”

Or “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

By Friedrich Nietzsche

This quote lives in my mind rent free I can’t take it out 😭 it makes so much sense it hurts

the gaping whole within my chest,

is growing at a rate that I can not correct.

my self hatred is getting a little taller,

the world seems a little smaller.

if you prode and probe just right,

you'll find an army of all my regrets.

all the words I've wanted to take back are buried in the bite marks,

lining my tounge as I pray to restart.

- t.g

Self improvement is great but ultimately? you have to accept your self. Yes you can eat better, exercise more, read more, set boundaries, love your self, but it all comes down to this. Some days you won’t have the energy to do any of these things. And you’ll look in the mirror and think that this is not enough. That’s a lie. The biggest love for self is to live slowly. To rest. To really rest. Have a nap. Eat what makes you feel good. Read if you want to. Embrace yourself and accept that you cannot and will not be ever be perfect. Accept that you are good enough. You don’t need to keep busy all the time. you don’t need to go out all the time and post on instagram. You don’t need to journal if you don’t want to. You don’t need to make art if you don’t want to. Breathe, give yourself grace and compassion. Give yourself the love and tenderness you so badly need. Be gentle with yourself. You are trying and it is good enough. You are good enough.

"Prehaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live elsewhere."

-Willam Faulkner