Heal. Your Mom May Never Apologize To You, Because She Has Conditioned Herself To Believe That She Did

In the name of self-respect, some bridges need to be burned.

YEMEN. Sanaa. Gardens cultivated in the middle of the city. 1995. - HG/Magnum Photos

“Be crazy for her, for the female isn’t tempted by the love of the sane.كن مجنوناً لأجلها .. فالأنثي لا يغريها حب العقلاء”

— Nizar Qabbani

Listen to me: You get good at things by being bad at them. You learn by failing. You gain competency and a sense of mastery by failing at something many times and in many interesting ways.

The sooner you are able to laugh at your own failures, to enjoy the process of messing up, the easier life will be. Because you'll no longer be afraid of learning.

And once you're no longer afraid of failing, you can learn anything.

good things I did for myself 3/29

meditated AGAIN (2 day streak yahoo!!)

cried

did some homework 1 hour into coming home

ate something healthy

every time you assume that others are thinking negatively of you or judging you behind your back, you are bullying yourself through them. at the end of the day, you don't know what thoughts are running through their heads unless they verbally express them to you. until then, every one of 'their' opinions about you is nothing more than your fear, and whatever assumption is born from your fear is yours to let go - not theirs to disprove.

its 1am now I hope something comes up for the better in 6 months, change, something that makes me feel like my heart actually beats

pls give me some courage to study lol

THE EARTHWORM DOES NOT THINK OF ALL THE EARTH THROUGH WHICH IT MUST MOVE BUT ONLY THE 5"X5" POCKET OF DIRT THAT SURROUNDS IT IN THE HERE AND NOW THIS IS HOW IT PERFORMS ITS GOD GIVEN DUTY AND YOU ARE NO DIFFERENT FROM THE EARTHWORM AND YOU TOO HAVE YOUR 5"X5" POCKET OF SOIL AND YOU TOO NEED ONLY FIND THE SMALLEST POSSIBLE STEP YOU CAN TAKE AND DO IT AND THEN FIND THE NEXT SMALLEST AFTER THAT, AND THE NEXT SMALLEST AFTER THAT AND THE NEXT SMALLEST AFTER THAT AND THE NEXT SMALLEST AFTER THAT REMEMBER THE MOUNTAIN DOES NOT EXIST ANON ONLY THE TRACK BELOW YOUR FEET AND WHERE U TAKE THEM LOVE YOU BE THE EARTHWORM GOOD LUCK

do you have any words of wisdom for rejection? got some bad news tonight 🥲

rejection does not mean you are not worthy of love. rejection means it’s not the right person or sometimes not the right time. my gf initially rejected me and i was devastated then. but that didn’t make me give up on love. it didn’t make me think i was not good enough. it reminded me that some things simply don’t work out how we hope but that in the future, other things will.