Temple of Light and Shadow

You’re not a machine, so you aren’t “broken” and “useless” if you’re sick, there is more to life than being productive. You don’t need to be in a constant path of improvement to be important as a human being. And I hope you can start believing in your own worth soon. Sick or not, you still matter.

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

when Mary Oliver said “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world”

May you find tiny moments that remind you life can still be kind .

you have to stay kind. you have to find a way somehow

I refuse to apologize for being soft—let me fall in love with life. let me sing and speak to my house-plants, let me dance in my bedroom with headphones, let me read by my windowsill when it’s pouring outside. let me stroke my friend’s face and say something sappy. let me be unapologetically happy for the little things that make my day better. life’s too short anyway, at least let me love it every step of the way