a blinding golden light

Allow people to like you, to enjoy your company, to want to be your friend. Allow them to compliment you, allow others to think you're cool and funny even if you think you're not. It is not up to you to tell others how to feel, and remember that people might see the positive things in you and qualities that you have been failing to see while being too self-critical. Allow yourself to be liked by other people, even when you don't see why they should. Don't self-isolate because you think you are not good enough for other people.

i know a lot ot us have that "what if i'm actually annoying" fear, and while i COULD self-soothe with affirmations like "i'm not annoying, it's okay" i prefer "it is my human right to be annoying and cringe"

Image text transcription: #NO UNIRONICALLY THIS #i have a thing about being annoying or a burden and smth and my therapist told me #is that that’s love!! being a burden and leaning on one another and being an inconvenience and irritating and annoying or whatever the fuck “thats what it is to be human baby!! we r not self sufficient beings #we’re pack animals #of course you’re going to be annoying “babies bond with their mothers by being dead weight for years and that’s GOOD and HEALTHY #it’s your god given right to be annoying #anyway. this is not very eloquent but i think it gets the point across #lean on one another be burdensome #that’s how you build trust by being an imposition #this took a turn

it’s all about houses and homes. I am a haunted house. I am a house on fire. every house is a person and every person is a house.

The moment you come to terms with the fact that everything is temporary/fluctuates/changes, you will experience an unimaginable amount of peace.

Once, when I was laying in bed subconsciously addicted to misery, I looked outside, saw the sun, and realized I had other options