there are days when i understand why healing feels like a battle. there’s a younger version of you still scared, another still angry about what happened, and the person you are today just wants everyone to please let you breathe.
If you’ve been wondering why the years seem to be moving faster as you get older, your routine might have something to do with it. the brain pays attention to change and novelty. when your days all look the same, fewer moments stand out in your memory, so time feel like disappear
Dear Nairobi property developers
We don't want open plan kitchens, Please bring back kitchens with doors and windows.
we want to cook in peace without the whole house smelling of food.
You are a financial athlete. Once you realise this, pressure naturally becomes play. Stress excites you. Rest is essential recovery. You play to win. But it's repetition. Constantly upgrade your mindset. Until your subconscious remembers it's who you are.
We yearn for entertainment, power, intimacy, sexual fulfillment and material things, and we think we can find these things if we discover the right relationship or job, the right church or therapy. But without soul whatever we find will be unsatisfying, for what we truly long for is the soul in each of these areas.
~Thomas Moore,
Care of the Soul:
A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life, p. xvi.
I miss the sweet bensoul. The one that sang more to your soul than to your body. The one who wrote niombee and favorite song. I hope I hear just one song from him this year.
Unhealed trauma can sometimes create a high tolerance threshold to emotional abuse. Just because you can endure it well doesn't mean you have to accept it.