Has This Been Done Yet

There is something beautiful about being me

There is something beautiful about being me. I do not know if it is the endless amount of comfort I apply to myself like a muscle relaxer or maybe if it is the solace I find in my own company, my own mind, and conscience. Or maybe if it is the glowing brown skin adorned with artwork. Or the tireless hands who have life riddled between the palms. Sometimes, however, my mind is not a nice place to be. It whispers lies into reality and convinces me that what I see before me is more than it is. And it is not something I can run from, but rather something that has backed me into a corner and berated me. There is no running from the labyrinth of possibilities my mind lays in front of me. I wish I could count endless sheep or drown out the sound of the whispers with a repeated mantra over and over and over again, but my thoughts reign supreme. My thoughts control my day, my face, and my hands. But this mind that runs rampant throughout the day is mine to own. It is mine to claim and let it be known, there is a beauty to this madness. The beauty of seeing all sides of the same coin. Endless realities mean I do not have to be forced into one. There is beauty to owning something so wild, so dangerously quick, livid, and winding. There will always be another turn, another roundabout, or sharp right. And at the end of the day, at the end of my days, when my bones ache and my body begs for rest, there will still be my wild mind wreaking a beautiful havoc in my head.

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poetry recommendations for january

I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

The New Decade by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors by Richard Siken

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara

Shokushu Goukan for the Cyborg Soul by Franny Choi

Untitled by James Baldwin

What’s Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

The Horse Fell Off the Poem by Mahmoud Darwish

The Crunch by Charles Bukowski

The Touch by Anne Sexton

i love you to the moon & by Chen Chen

Winter by Chen Chen

Meows Morales?!

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You're gonna be ok. It will be fine. Things will sort themselves out. It's gonna be fine. You will be just fine. You're allowed to stop stressing.

Less Envy More Contentment

Help others. Happy people are known to not only be content with their lives but to love improving the lives of others.

Love yourself. This is an important factor in how you can sustain the contentment in your life.

Try something completely new. Doing something completely new and out of your comfort zone will make you open up your mind and have a less rigid view of how confusing life is and lean more into being creative.

Enjoy failing. That's right. If you want to be content with your life, then you have to completely fail at something to learn and grow.

Hang out with people who are content with their lives.

Stock up on value for self. To eliminate the feelings of insecurity, stop focusing on what you think you do not have. And realize there's no competition in your world. You are unbelievably powerful and full of light already.

Stay independent. Sure, you may feel that your life is nothing without your partner but that does not mean that you should be overly dependent on them.

Have faith in your love as a couple. Do you think your guy was flirting with the girl at the restaurant yesterday? Maybe it happened, and perhaps it did not.

Find out why you are jealous. Statistics show that most people are jealous and insecure in their current relationships because of what they went through with their previous partners.

Never play games. Most jealous people will try to make themselves feel better by finding ways to make their partner jealous.

Identify When the Change Happened. The first step in getting back to happiness is to determine what really makes you happy in the first place.

Don’t Fake it. The next step is to not try to fake happiness. Fake it ‘til you make it is not real life. Let yourself respond authentically to each moment as it arrives, without bound to the narrative of who you think you are!

Take Responsibility If you’re unhappy, will you take responsibility for turning this around? I think taking responsibility is the most powerful attribute we can possess in life.

What’s Standing in Your Way? To discover your happiness and allow yourself to experience the full gamut of being human, you need to determine what is standing towards being your greatest self.

Be Kind to Yourself. As you carry on throughout this journey, you need to recognize the points in which you can be kind towards yourself.

In judging yourself, your life, your body, and your belongings as 'not as good as' or 'better than' (the only two verdicts in a comparison!), you limit yourself and your capability to appreciate change as life goes on. We grow as life changes. Our experiences shape us into a new person. Its beautiful ♥

honestly the human brain is so small that you *will* forget how much beauty there is out there to experience unless you leave your house every three days. ik its fucked up but i promise its true

I want an okarun type of boyfriend/husband 🥺😩

sometimes i wish i could grab my childhood self and shake them by the shoulders and say YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE WORTH LOVING. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES ARE MADE BETTER BECAUSE OF YOU. YOU ARE NOT A BURDEN. YOU ARE NOT DAMNED. SOMEDAY YOU WILL CRY OVER SUNSETS AND POETRY MORE THAN YOUR OWN PAIN. I NEED YOU TO REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE WORTH LOVING. but i can't go back in time, so i say it to myself now. because i believe there's a future version of me looking back on this moment feeling the exact same way.

Seeing spider verse with my little sister