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[ً @archivedlooks]

Schiaparelli: Crystal Ants Skirt (2023)

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

THE OLDEST GUY AT MY ADHD SUPPORT GROUP IS 71. HE RUNS HIS LIFE ON 8 RULES. I WROTE DOWN EVERY ONE.

Diagnosed at 64. Built three businesses undiagnosed. When he talks, the whole room goes quiet.

[smoothie @shedrinkswater]

You can tell a lot about a person by the way they speak of love, especially when they say they do not want it, or that having a partner will become a blockage to the life they are meant to build. More often than not, it is an ideology of love constructed from trauma, disappointment, fear, and the slow humiliation of believing that what they truly desire may never arrive.

Everyone wants love. At the end of the day, when the world has gone quiet and you are lying in your bed with nothing left to perform, to prove, to distract yourself with, the body still seeks warmth, connection, recognition, and the unbearable tenderness of being known by someone who chooses to stay. People deny this and call it freedom because they have started thinking that hopelessness is enlightenment.

Love does not block growth. Love reveals where growth is still required. It will not always arrive as softness, ease, and gilded reassurance. Sometimes it will come as confrontation, rupture, discomfort, patience, repair, and the excruciating demand to remain present with another human being when every wounded part of you wants to run. You have to stay long enough to discover what the love is trying to make of you.

The right love gives you a centre from which you can enter the world with greater courage. You become more free to explore, build, create, risk, and become, because you are no longer moving through life with that quiet, subterranean ache of wondering whether anyone truly loves you, or whether all your striving is only an elaborate attempt to distract yourself from the absence of home.

When you are loved properly, the question of what you are working so hard for begins to answer itself. You are building for a life that can hold love, protect it, honour it, and make it easier for both of you to exist inside the world.

Those who have truly loved know this intimately. Love is one of the most brutal, sacred, and transformative forces through which you truly grow.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

the fastest way to attract what you deserve is to become completely unavailable to what you don’t

[c @kikaykikayi]

Job market is like do u want to train AI or be unemployed

[V - CHICAGO PHOTOGRAPHER @vsidaugaite]

street photos of love

[V - CHICAGO PHOTOGRAPHER @vsidaugaite]

July in Chicago

[lunika @fashionitgirl]

alexa demie leaving her house three times in a week
I used to pray for times like this

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.

[Grace’s Essence @esotericbondgrl]

Jean Paul Gaultier S/S 2013 Paris

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

“How old are you?”

Me:

[Emmi @happyfionn]

love it when she hits this pose

[Nathan ✰ @Just1Nathann_]

Nah. 27-33 aren't your humbling years. They're your awakening years.

So many people misunderstand this phase of life.

That's when you start seeing things clearly. Everything suddenly dawns on you. You realize what you want, what doesn't matter, and how much time you've wasted.

Some people mistake that clarity for failure because they wish they had figured it out earlier.

But if you're determined, you can build more in those few years than you did in your entire early twenties.

[ᯓ★ @chorio_actis]

20-year-old at the party asked me to play a Blood Orange song and i said woah throwback! and she said "i hate how all this old underground stuff is blowing up because of tiktok"... honey this was already viral in 2011 on repeat inside ye olde chain corporation Urban Outfitters

[dennis reynolds @mscoleybeee]

27 is lowkey the first year of being alive

[DUDA @saintdemie]

alexa demie and her sisters for i-d magazine 🪽
photographed by petra collins and styled by brynn jones

[✧♡° ₛₐffᵢᵣₑ°♡✧ @fknfairygoddess]

No revenge because I actually like who I become after getting over things

[Philosophy Sage @philosophysage]

I STUDIED 50 PEOPLE WHO SEEM "LUCKY" IN LIFE.

None of them journal. Or wake at 5am. Or have a "system."

But They All Do These 12 Things Religiously:

1. They don't wait for the weekend to live.

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

“The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you…”