Magalí

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

I hope everyone grows tired of being cruel to each other soon

Salman Toor (Pakistani, 1983), The Reader, 2022. Oil on linen, 18 x 24 in.

Even when I was a little kid I wanted to have a beer and a cigarette on my porch some cool summer night

I am doing whatever the opposite of locked in is .

when fiona apple asked “how can i ask anyone to love me when all i do is beg to be left alone”. well i have not found an answer but if anyone else has lmk