ashley walrath

thots

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

U ever look at someone and know they sucked on a pacifier too long

[MARI ⸆⸉ 💫 @baileeeeeez]

sophie living her suburban wife life while having the most insane side quest imaginable… this was so UNHINGED 😭😭

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

To have village, you must be a villager

[✒️ @Literariium]

Dostoevsky wrote this after nearly being executed:

“When I look back at my life, I feel pain not because of suffering, but because of wasted time. I see how carelessly I lived, how often I ignored the quiet voice of my soul, how rarely I understood the value of a single moment. Only when death stood before me did I realize that life is not merely existence—it is a miracle. Every minute is a treasure, and in every breath, there is the possibility of happiness.”

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Waking up at 6 a.m. to go to work, knowing a third of my paycheck goes to people in the Epstein files

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

Read it again.

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

I had a dream Shania Twain wanted me

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

Hell is the hallway

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

I miss the hunting wives

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

I wish there were more people to talk to about ivf.
I mean I don’t cuz it’s not fun but also ya know what I mean.
No one understands what I’m saying lol

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

It would make time pass and people feel less alone

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

I wish all of us ivf patients in the clinic talked to each other lol

[birds' hell @saturnalreturn]

yeah, well, not according to my warped perception of reality

[Jessicunt @jessicnnt]

this is what intimacy is about to me, the literal phenomenon of remembering ppl in ways they’ve forgotten themselves

[ashley walrath @ashleynwal]

Respect the mystery

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I can’t stop thinking about this quote…

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” - George Santayana

Your life is not a singular, static experience.

Your life has seasons.

I believe that the worst mistakes in life are made when we try to cling to a prior season that has already passed.

They’re made when we are hopelessly in love with spring.

And those mistakes are deceptively easy to make…

When we close our eyes and think about that spring, all we see is sunshine. When you think about the past, you forget (or at least glaze over) the struggle. This is mostly because it all worked out. You’re here today. You made it. You’re alive. You’re doing fine.

Author Morgan Housel once wrote, “It’s hard to remember how you felt when you know how the story ends.”

Spring feels certain.

The new season feels like a leap of faith. An embrace of the unknown. A step into a future devoid of much of what brought you joy in the past.

So, we cling to the old and blind ourselves to the new.

But the river never stops flowing. As you fight with everything to swim against the current, you miss the beauty all around you.

You may long for the season of your youth. Of young love. The freedom of going wherever and doing whatever you want.

But in trying to cling to this season, what beauty might you miss?

To grow old with the love of your life. To grow together and experience attraction in all its forms. To dance with your love at your children’s weddings. To experience the immense joy of being grandparents.

To know your children as adults. To learn from your children as much as they have learned from you.

To struggle and grow in new ways that you never anticipated.

To feel the pain of loss, but through it be reminded of just how much you loved.

You see, the truth is that each season is beautiful in its own right. But not just because of its sunshine.

My grandmother once said, “Never fear sadness, as it tends to sit right next to love.”

The real beauty of life is found in the contrasts. It dances on a razor’s edge. Joys and sorrows. Pleasure and pain. Success and struggle.

That is life. The friction. The realness.

A perpetual spring offers none of that. It wasn’t as perfect as you remember it, and even if it were, you wouldn’t want perfection, because everything would fade to a dull, soulless shade of grey.

Let us all choose to be interested in the changing seasons. To give in to the river. To smile as we float along, embracing its current, with all the good and bad that it brings.

Spring is wonderful, yes, but have you ever smelled the air after a summer rain? Or felt that rush of an autumn breeze? Or sat by the fire on a cold winter day?

Let us choose to fall in love with the seasons.

[Kendrick J. Green @The_fridge53]

Celebrating any non violent person getting killed is insane man.

[Amala Ekpunobi @amalaekpunobi]

His crime was daring to have conversations.