Never look back

Book of the day: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

Always remember how much you have survived. Your world has fallen apart before. Time and time again and the rest of the world has still kept going despite the fact that you are broken. And after thinking you will never recover, never get up off the floor again, you have, dusted yourself off and carried on. If you have survived your world shattering, over and over again, and you are still here, a bit damaged, a bit broken but still here – you should be proud of yourself. Because that is no small thing.

There’s nothing harder than putting yourself back together every morning.

Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

sometimes, you’ll have a couple of good days. and then it hits you. everything. it hurts to talk, to love, to be. existing is so difficult at times but no one wants to hear that. no one wants to know about the days you spend crying or curled up in a corner somewhere or wishing you could be anywhere but here. we all have our ways of coping with it. we all have our very own acts of survival. our ways of staying alive when we’re in too much pain to feel anything at all. i get it. this isn’t life anymore. this is just about getting through the day. i hope that one day it’ll be something more than that.