As a woman over 20, you have to commit to a minimum of 5 beauty standards you refuse to care about for your own peace of mind. What is a hip dip? Strawberry legs? Stretch marks? Buccal fat? Please go to hell, man.
Human approval is unstable. Someone may praise you today and criticize you tomorrow, so it's wiser to anchor your life in deeper principles than in other people's opinions.
i believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books & movies at different stages of your life. the plot never changes, but your perspective does.
it’s okay. i revisit what i once read at 18 now at 26 and finally understand the parts that used to slip past me. the interesting part of rereading is realizing the words never changed. only you did, in ways almost unrecognizable to your former self