Embrace the madness

“You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that made you wiser, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything you still grow. Be proud of this.”

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

there’s always this one person you cant seem to get over. years and years could pass by - but just a plain text message brings you back to the long forgotten feelings you’ve built for them ages ago.

“people pleasing tendencies will have you repeating toxic cycles that leave you tending to people who give you the bare minimum, when in exchange, you’re giving them your fullest attention. be sure that your kindness is a choice and not a trauma response.”