And Try To Be As Gentle To Myself Right Now As This Makes Me Feel For My Past Self - Tumblr Posts

oh the quiet tenderness this makes me feel dude like pressing on a bruise thats mostly healed /super pos rb i spent so much time having already dismissed myself and my art as a failure something inheriently flawed like i only ever received praise out of pity or obligation but looking back through those old sketch books and instead of the horrific failures i remember its just drawings. like any other. some meh. some okay. and some actually pretty damn good! Like all the ways in which we’ve grown into ourselves all the shame we’ve learned to let go of you were never a bad kid you just didnt have much access to mercy from those around you but mostly from yourself might have to go lie down for a min and try to be as gentle to myself right now as this makes me feel for my past self thank u archie /gen hugging u so soft