words have power

growing up a girl letting people do things to you for years and years and years means your anger will turn biblical. anger that is incoherent unidentifiable inconsolable

"I'm glad you're okay" but said by someone who has just had the shit beaten out of them, to someone who is not hurt at all, is a brilliant trope and I lose my mind every time.

i wish people would normalize being lost in life and just not knowing anything. not knowing what you’re passionate about, where you want to live, what you want to do, where you want to go— or what lies next. as a society, we normalized going to school, finding a passion, getting a job, finding a partner, getting married, having kids, working hard to earn an honest living. but what about when shit just doesn’t go that way? you really just don’t know. and what’s even worse is, you don’t know why you don’t know or even where to start so you feel alone. you feel as though you’re a disappointment to your family. as if you failed in life. but you haven’t, it’s okay, to not know. to be lost. you have your whole life ahead of you to figure things out. patience is a virtue. there is no time limit on life. you don’t need to rush. don’t allow society to fixate the narrative of having all your shit together at a certain age. it isn’t realistic for most. being lost is so much more normal than we think. and i just wish people would be more transparent about it.

the feminine urge to go missing

Why does my future depend on me I don't like this

gaslighting myself into thinking i’m doing fine

gaslighting myself into thinking i'm not

women can not be blamed for having hundreds of screenshots we’ll never use in our camera roll. it’s the gatherer instinct

self care isn’t always a skin care routine and bed making. self care can be responding to the email you put off for a week so it’s off your shoulders. self care can be making your favourite smoothie because you need something comforting. self care can be letting yourself rest instead of pushing your body past its limits. only you can define what self care looks like for you.