Delicately Balanced

Surround yourself with people who are open and vocal about how much they love and admire you, who call themselves your biggest fan and who are there to support you through your path to greatness.

Surround yourself with people who enjoy their own interests unapologetically, who genuinely seek for the things that will make them happy and who are not restrained by what people will think of them. 

Surround yourself with people who aren’t afraid to show affection through words or physical gestures, who are shamelessly in love with their special other and who see that their love is a sign of strength, not weakness.

Surround yourself with people with healing energy, people who will listen to you attentively, who will offer a helping hand when the world is falling down around you, who will try their best to understand your struggles.

Surround yourself with people that are loud, who aren’t afraid to exist brightly and colorfully, who laugh and cry and have fun and feel with every fiber of their being. 

Most importantly, though, be that kind of person. Put positive energy into the world and you will find it coming back to you. This group of nerds is just a taste of what unapologetic genuine shameless love can accomplish. And I feel grateful every day for the reminder that there’s someone out there who, when you least expect it, will show up and love you and make life a thousand times better.

Dark is pissed and at ýͅo̡͉̖͚̠u̩̦̮ .

Hot cocoa in a Styrofoam cup but there’s not enough room in the cup for a full packet of hot cocoa so it’s either too strong or too weak

A piano that hasn’t been played since the 1980s

A room that’s always closed and has adults talking behind it but you’re not quite sure who they are or if they ever leave

Donuts that you’re not allowed to eat

Scented markers and multicolored craft sticks in an old basket

Veggie tales on VHS and two rolling tvs on ancient tv stands

A room behind another room that has christmas decorations in it

This table:

that one bitch who’s always always wearing tights and a dress even though the basement never gets above like 55 degrees 

Dusty ass bibles and one lone dusty ass hymnal

Old programs for concerts, baptisms, events, and VBS printed with black ink on colored 8.5″x11″ paper folded in half 

Little acrylic bead craft projects in the shapes of lizards or cats that some girl made at church camp and forgot to take home 

Glitter but not in the joyful gay way