Brave

When Dostoevsky said, "Pain changes you, but it teaches. That is its mercy." but Kafka said, "Pain changes nothing. It just repeats itself until you forget who you were before it started."

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

i think it's fine if women have an inflated view of their own intelligence bc the average man with slightly more brain function than a jellyfish thinks of himself as a tortured genius

the past is the past. leave it there. leave it there. LEAVE IT THERE.

men want freedom from what tho, these men be wanting everything they already have and a little more istg

i'm not ghosting you, i forgot i was real