conversations between a full moon and a heavy heart

I hope you are learning to be a wonderful best friend to yourself. I hope you stand up for yourself the way you would do for a friend you saw being mistreated. I hope you buy yourself presents and give yourself treats and tell yourself "take care of you" and sit with yourself and listen to yourself when you feel like crying or complaining or breaking down. I hope you hype yourself up when your confidence is low and stay gentle when you must tell yourself you've made a mistake. You are the best friend you are ever going to have, and I hope you're an amazing one to you.

When Roland Barthes said, "I've got nothing to say to you. But it's to you I want to say this nothing." And when Jenny Han said, "We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything." And when Emily Dickinson said, "Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

just found out that “wish you were here” in persian is ‘jāy-e shomā khālīst’ which means “your place is empty” and it felt like being stabbed in the heart 37 times