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Male gaze this. Female gaze that. What about my wide-eyed gaze, we're singing in the car, getting lost upstate?

no one tells you how much of life takes practice. not just writing, painting, running, singing, etc, but practicing how to make friends. how to make the right ones. getting practiced at how to be a good friend, a good sibling, a good person. practice identifying when people haven’t earned that. learning to recognize your right to rage and, eventually, how to offer mercy. so much of life is muscle memory, and i’ve begun to realize there are so many more parts of ourselves to flex and stretch and strengthen than those we’re taught in anatomy lessons

Everything we say yes to is a no to something else. When we say yes to going out of our comfort zone & trying something new, we are saying no to staying stuck. When we say yes to taking time to heal, we are saying no to future self sabotage. When we say yes to trusting God, we are saying no to worry and anxiety. Say yes to the things that will help you grow.