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in many ways being alive is about getting to have a little coffee every morning
"I want to be rich" means …
You want to get rid of the alarm clock
You want to leisurely spend time with people you love
You want to stop worrying about the rent or whether you can buy healthy food
You want to be able to help
You want to do more of what you love
There are days in your life where the sky is gray and will stay like that for a while. Sometimes not just gray, sometimes it turns deep deep indigo and rain on you until you find yourself drowning.
But I want you to remember that if there are no gray skies, you won’t know how clear skies feel. If it doesn’t rain for quite a long while you won’t appreciate the sun when it shows up. If you haven’t felt lonely for sometime, you won’t be able to differentiate the feeling to being happy. If you haven’t seen the view from below, you won’t appreciate the view from the top. I want you to remember that if there are no bad days, good days will not feel good at all.
You can’t run away from gray skies; but really, you don’t have to. Bad days are inevitable because they are necessary. They are the ones that teach our hearts to appreciate the good when it finally comes—no matter how little.
—Ali, (Pahimakas)
Forgive me for the days I disappear without a warning.
For the days I leave your message on read or I don’t open it at all. For the days I couldn’t answer calls or at least let it ring. For the days I seem okay but the next day I can’t be reached. Forgive me for the catch-ups I miss. For the greetings I couldn’t send. For the days I’m too exhausted to even show up. Forgive me for the times when I say I’m busy but I lay in my bed all day.
Forgive me for the days I can’t tell what’s wrong but I act like there is. If sometimes I seem like I cut you off or I don’t care anymore. For the times I seem selfish enough to disappear without a clue and leave everyone wondering.
Forgive me. There are just days where I have to shut everything out in order to regain myself.
—Ali, (Pahimakas)
I mean, aren’t we all a little mad in this world?
We’re all a little desperate about something. About passions, dreams, people. We’re all eagerly searching for something—an answer, a fate, a purpose. We’re all a little lonely. We all have regrets, we all look back sometime in our past and wish life’s the same as that. We’re all a little angry at people. People who don’t care, people who don’t listen. People who can’t feel, people who don’t understand. We’re all a little lost. We all get confused at times if we’re where we should be. If we’re doing enough, if we’re giving the world enough.
No one is nothing but happy in this world. We’re all a mixture of all happy and sad parts and we all have days where either of the parts overcomes the other.
Aren’t we all doing our best to survive? No one is 100% okay of where he/she is. We’re all trying our best and holding on to that little hope we have that the tables will turn and life will be better than it is now.
—Ali, (Pahimakas)
Right now, I am just trying to survive.
I am just trying to go through my day. To accomplish what I can. To stop overthinking about the future. To believe that tomorrow could be a better day.
I am just trying to not fall apart. To stop thinking that I am a failure each time my plans don't go accordingly. To stop being frustrated over tiny inconsistencies or small shortcomings that I make.
I am just trying to stay strong. To not break the promises I made to my younger self. To not walk away from what I've started. To not make my 5-years-from-now dreams go to waste.
Right now, I am just surviving. And I hope that no matter how heavy the next days may be, I won't run out of reasons to keep going.
— Aaron Cariaga (Poetry That Stays)
"I want to be rich" means …
You want to get rid of the alarm clock
You want to leisurely spend time with people you love
You want to stop worrying about the rent or whether you can buy healthy food
You want to be able to help
You want to do more of what you love
𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒
Don't hate your teachers for asking you a better output. They believe you can do better.
Don't hate them for asking you to do more than you think you can.
They trust your abilities.
Don't hate them for lecturing about your absences and inappropriate attitude. They want you to become a good, responsible person.
Don't hate them for encouraging you to keep dreaming and work hard for it. They want a bright future ahead of you.
Don't hate them for requiring you to beat deadlines. They want you to learn that time is precious.
Don't hate them for being angry when you cheat. They want you to be independent, honest and self-reliant.
Don't hate them for being too hard at times. They want you to know that the world outside is not at all times easy.
Don't hate them for giving you an honest low grade than faking a good grade for you to feel fine. They want you to know that you need to do better, if not the best, and that achievement is earned; not begged for.
Don't hate me for being your teacher. I just want a better version of you who keep growing at every beautiful encounter in school, big or small. You have become a part of me. 😊
Healthy relationships aren't found, they're built off teamwork... good communication & understanding
the feminine urge to not let anything from my past stop me from believing in love and starting over is a real battle.
no one knows what you’re going through. only you know. so don’t use broad labels other people would use on you to describe yourself or your behaviour. don’t call yourself a bad friend when you know you haven’t had energy lately. don’t call yourself a bad or unworthy person if you know you’re been trying to heal but made some mistakes in the process. don’t call yourself dumb because you’re struggling on understanding a topic you’ve never touched before. don’t say you’re unlovable when you know you get attached quickly to people who are wrong for you and then they inevitably leave. don’t give judgement on yourself without trying to understand your own perspective. trying to understand yourself and being empathetic towards yourself is what will help you become a better person. step into your own shoes rather than see yourself from the perspective of others.
you will feel so alive again.. like so incredibly alive. i dont know when that will be but it will be. u are gonna feel so alive that ur cheeks hurt from smiling oh man oh man i promise that day is coming. you do have a future, you do have good things coming, and you’ll survive everything that’s thrown at you until you reach that day