🖤☝🏼 you “move on” by learning to live with it…
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)
“Do not speak badly of yourself - for the warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them.”
— David Gemmell
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but...
It is not your job to…
- Fix them.
- Be their parent, or give them what their parents were supposed to and didn’t.
- Be their therapist
- Take on their problems and feelings and responsibilities as your own.
- Teach them how to be a functional adult.
- Clean up their messes (literally or figuratively).
- Save them.
- Heal them.
- Rescue them.
- Tiptoe around their feelings and reactions.
- Tolerate their crappy behavior.
- Enable them.
- Free them from an addiction of any kind.
- Be their manic pixie dream girl/guy.
- Help them get over their ex, their unrequited crush from high school, etc.
- Make them “grow up.”
- Help them get their shit together.
- Fill some (real or imagined) void in their life.
- Bring them the happiness they need to find within themselves.
- Validate them.
- Give their life a sense of meaning and purpose.
- Be their sole reason for getting out of bed in the morning.
- Live for them.
- Make them happy at all costs.
- Change them.
- Improve them.
- Help them get over their “commitment-phobia.”
- “Do the work” for them.
- Prop up their fragile ego.
- Be their only source of emotional support.
Because that’s not love. That’s codependency. And that never ends well.
I have this tumultuous relationship with codependency and detachment. On one hand, I seek complete solitude when I become overwhelmed by my environment and emotional nature. Then again, I become codependent in relationships because I can’t stand to be alone with troubling faults that cause me anxiety. It’s a vicious cycle that constantly repeats itself.
Am I not what you bargained for?
The white girl with green eyes, blonde hair.
so easy to pin down, all fragility, femininity,
existing to put you at ease.
I must not be, you so quickly tired of me,
denial and acceptance fighting in your eyes
that I just might not be
what you so quickly thought of me.
Impossible to understand
why green eyes
encompassed by
dark lashes
would choose anonymity.
For I am everything to nothing,
masculine, feminine, shallow,
and deep as the sea,
you cannot see past the reef to look into the depths
of my nonduality.
here’s a list of my favourite playlists that i listen to when studying. only one playlist has lyrics so if you find that distracting you can skip it!
- 1 am study session - lofi hip hop/chill beats (1 hour)
- a rainy town - animal crossing ost + thunderstorm ambiance (1 hour)
- breath of the wild relaxing music with rain (1 hour)
- lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to (live radio)
- relaxing life is strange music (1 hour) *has lyrics
- relaxing music from uncharted series (45 mins)
- skyrim music & ambiance - night (1 hour)
- skyrim music & ambiance - rainy day (10 hours)
- studio ghibli summer night piano collection with nature sounds (7 hours)
- the last of us - relaxing music compilation (30 mins)
- the legend of zelda - calming & relaxing music compilation (1 hour)
- the witcher 3 - peaceful music & nature ambiance (1 hour)
- the witcher 3 toussaint - relaxing music for sleep and study (1 hour)
- uncharted - ambient music & ambience (1 hour)
- all playlists
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.”
— G. K. Chesterton, “Our Note Book”, The Illustrated London News (5 May 1928)
Quelle: takethisride






