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Me realising my first love was God:

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”

— William Nicholson

A few weeks ago, I saw a tiktok of a person mockingly saying, “when his only ‘trauma’ is his parents getting divorced” and I haven’t stopped thinking about it for a while. It is a common idea that frustrates me beyond belief. Just because a traumatic experience is common and or not “as bad” as other traumatic experiences does not make it any less traumatic. Seeing your parents separate and having to deal with that for your entire childhood is very hard. Especially if there’s fighting and bitterness between the two parties, which, once again, is very common. Trauma is trauma. Is there different levels of severity? Yes. Does that make it any less valid. No. Not at all. No child should have to deal with trauma, even if that trauma isn’t “that bad” or common. And a person’s experience with that trauma should never be belittled.

you & your favorite artist look at the same moon btw

“When you can tell your story and it doesn’t make you cry, that’s when you know you’ve healed.”

— Unknown

i want someone who sees the bad in me and still wants to stay.

And I might be okay but I'm not fine at all

“If you don’t go after what you want you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

— Nora Roberts

““dear self, for the times i didn’t show you enough love, for the times i didn’t love you at all, i forgive you.” - sabina laura”

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“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”

— Victor Hugo