DARK ACADEMIA

No one is coming to save you is about how you can't suffer in silence and privacy and hope that someone will magically show up one day and say, "oh I noticed your suffering. Let me fix everything for you." It is not a statement that no one will help you. They will. You have to ask first tho. And then, unfortunately, you have to put in the work, because in almost all situations you will receive help and assistance, rather than unequivocal rescue.

and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?

I’m not an early bird or a night owl. I’m more of a tired afternoon duck.

an old drunk man told me to enjoy my life and have fun because I’m only 25 and I have so many years and so much life ahead of me and then he went “and you know what? in ten years when you’re 35 you’ll still be young and have your whole life ahead of you” and it was really comforting to me.

she's not simply pretty.. she's "using my final breath to kiss a picture of my wife in my locket" pretty

you want to be loved if only to prove it possible: to tell the world that someone saw you as a conquest & came back alive. that above all else, you are worthy of the risk, the effort. you want someone to serve you the evidence: you are not as damned as you think you are. you are not as damned as you think you are