The figure of the killjoy comes up because of attachments. These relationships are important to her- vital for her survival and well being. As such, the killjoy is often in crisis. She experiences being a killjoy as a crisis. -@SaraNAhmed
“I was angry… and I’m still angry, but you can’t really be angry with a place unless you love it. You have to love it to wish it to be better, to wish it could be different.”
— Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
Are we REALLY living through traumatic event after traumatic event, or are we just the first generation with worldwide communication and social media, and life has actually always been this horrific?
Believe me: Life gets a lot better when you stop treating every inconvenience like it's the end of the world. Most things aren't "ruining your day" unless you decide they are.
When Louisa May Alcott said, “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship,” it hit differently when you realize that becoming stronger is often just learning how to navigate what once frightened you.
To live an honest life you have to strive hard, get involved, fight, make mistakes, begin something and give it up, begin again, struggle endlessly, and suffer loss. As for tranquility it’s spiritual baseness.
— Leo Tolstoy
You will heal. You will create again. You will wake up genuinely excited about your life. You will laugh again. You will get out of survival mode. You will trust yourself again. You will get your spark back. You will find your way back to yourself. You will. You will. You will.
God’s forgiveness is not calibrated to your past. It isn’t measured by the size of your failures. It isn’t surprised by the places you’ll go or the person you’ll become when pride, shame, or desire finally get the upper hand.
Grace waits on the other side of disaster.
Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.
It’s incredible that over 50 players at this World Cup are from the Paris area.
If only someone had made a BBC documentary about it…. They have!
It was a great experience talking to players, coaches & historians about the magic on Paris’s streets.
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https://t.co/1bahUkOkfs
Some people in your life have never seen you at your full capacity. They met you in a hard season, a transitional moment, a version of you still being built. Do not let their limited experience of you become your ceiling. You are more than the chapter they witnessed.
let people reintroduce themselves to you, even your closest friends. let them reintroduce their hobbies, dreams, and soul. familiarity shouldn't be a cage. love them for who they are now, not just who they were then.
That little boy was in tears, yet he was still consoling his father. This might be the most emotional moment I’ve ever seen in football🥹❤️❤️
https://t.co/uS6md7MAcm