RE: Self - Tumblr Posts
Euripides, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays; translated by Anne Carson
Text ID: Gods are stubborn. So am I.
so no one is going to talk about the time dostoyevsky said “and i seem to have such strength in me now, that i think i could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, ‘i exist.’ in thousands of agonies- i exist. i’m tormented on the rack- but i exist! though i sit alone in a pillar- i exist! i see the sun, and if i don’t see the sun, i know it’s there. and there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.” because hOly fuckkkk
GROWING PAINS
david wojnarowicz / alexander harding / su xinyu / @pearpoem / lorde / open house (1998) / billy collins / mitski / as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty (2000) / alain de bottom / hollis brown thornton / kalyn roseanne
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF THIS TIME, MY DEAR, MY LOVE
my writing // the end of longing - chelsea hodson // my writing, cont. // the goldfinch - donna tartt // my writing, cont. // on earth we’re briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong // a litany for survival - audre lorde // ugly, bitter, and true - suzanne rivecca // my writing, cont. // beouija
nobody talks about how ugly taking care of yourself can be
yes, sometimes it’s taking a warm bath and texting memes to friends and keeping an aesthetically pretty journal.
sometimes it’s crying silently on your couch at 3am, hugging yourself and reminding yourself that you’re a good person.
self care is not always ‘aesthetic’ and cute…and that’s ok. don’t be embarrassed, just do what you need to do.
Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost
'how would other people describe you' why would i know this
this is your heartbreak
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