Live.

You can always choose a better thought. You are in command of your thoughts, not the opposite way. You are the only person who thinks inside your mind. You can’t allow your thoughts to happen to you. You don’t have to merely witness your thoughts. You can consciously choose them.

When you become 20 something, you have to forgive yourself or you will never grow up. You have to forgive yourself for everything and learn from it.

Every action does NOT deserve an equal opposite reaction actually. I will never combat rudeness and cruelty w rudeness and cruelty. A lot of my self-worth in rooted in that—in seeing how I react to things when they test my patience or hurt my feelings or displease me in any way. And I’m not perfect but I have been navigating things w such a clear mind recently. Like legit nothing has been getting under my skin as of late. Staying true to myself is really all it takes for me to be grounded regardless of anyone else’s behavior

i need to go about my digital detox in a slightly different way. i feel like i'm only ever capable of being fully off my phone when i am so distracted that i cannot be on it (reading a book, on a run, w friends, doing a task etc etc). but i just want to be okay w the silence. i want to sit at a rooftop bar and look at the night sky and not feel compelled to check my phone or supplement the silence w something else. i want to be sitting on my bedroom floor doing nothing and still feel okay that i'm not on my phone. being off your phone can get intense bc after a certain point it actually feels like withdrawals (you get anxiety, fomo, antsiness) but i just want to feel those things and let them come as they may. it's not that i want to be off my phone completely so much as i want balance, but this interim of just letting go has been so tricky and kind of hard to beat. i seriously just need to be okay w the silence