i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water

why isn’t anyone allowed to be wrong anymore? it’s okay to be wrong. being wrong, and realizing you were wrong, is how you learn and grow.

the authors barely disguised longing for acceptance

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

#beauty

(1983)

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

it is absolutely essential to have friends you can have extremely insane pervert conversations with. this is kind of what makes life worth living

formative years? aren’t they all?

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse