turns out, reading a lot, exercising, loving people without expecting anything back, protecting your alone time, focusing only on improving yourself, and sometimes staying out late with friends who make you laugh until it hurts is a pretty good way to live.
what a beautiful gift it is to hit rock bottom. to be striped of any and all pride, ego, and false responsibility. to be left with nothing but possibility. a chance to climb upwards and make anew what once seemed impossible. every man, at one point in his life, could benefit from the raw, pure, and radically humbling experience of being left with nothing to realize that everything is possible.
to survive—for the soul to survive—you have to cultivate a strong softness, a stubborn gentleness, the most ferocious tenderness that doesn't look away, that looks, and speaks, and holds, and carries
best ways to soothe heartache:
-reading a good book
-learning something (anything)
-a long walk
-a long long long walk
-making something (anything)
-eating a big, tasty meal
-reading a book so bad it begins to replace your previous pain
-looking at a tree (any)
a regulated nervous system isn't quiet. it's responsive. it laughs loud in restaurants. it cries at commercials. it gets a full body chill from a song it hasn't heard in years. people mistake numbness for peace because numbness is easier to manage. but real peace has a pulse. it moves through you instead of around you.
Your identity is just a collection of habits. Habits of thought. Habits of emotion. Habits of action. None of them are permanent. None of them are you. They are just patterns you've repeated. And patterns can be broken. Identity can be rebuilt.
If you want to change, you have to become conscious of your unconscious patterns. You have to catch yourself in the act of being the old self. And then you have to choose differently. Not once. A thousand times. Until the new choice becomes the new default.
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The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
@____damned "Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."— Jim Rohn
Tend to your vessel, as your entire experience of being alive depends on it, because it does.
i have to treat my body better, not to attract a lover or an audience, but because my body is a conduit for the entire life experience. this body is a container for all possible consciousness. it is my job to live a life that this enhanced vessel can sustain with ease and joy .
You need to be slowmaxxing. You need to be reading long, fat books. You need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. You need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. You need to breathe in and breathe out. You need to be slowwwwwwwwww.
Curious lang?
Ano kaya feeling na may taong willing to go above and beyond just to be with you? Yung pupunta kahit malayo ka. Yung di na kailangan i convince kasi siya mismo ilalaban ka sa relasyon.
Anong pakiramdam ng may pipili sayo ng buo kahit mahirap, kahit inconvenient?
the feminine urge to start over, fix my habits, romanticize my routine, read more, nourish my body, explore new passions and slowly build a life I love