not love at first sight, but soul recognition
This is what it is, the love was already there
from journal entry (april 11th 2022, silas denver melvin, paper + digital)
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[ID: a black and white photograph of several muscovy ducks swimming in a line on a pond. in yellow text above them it reads "it's hard work, trying to make yourself into something your mother can stand to look at." /End ID]
"If someday the moon calls you by your name don't be surprised, because every night I tell her about you."
– Shahrazad al-Khalij
"I have an entire forest living inside of me and you have carved your initials into every tree."
– Pavana पवन
“You are more than a list of mistakes and if anyone tells you otherwise, let it be the last they make.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
“I hope you fall in love with someone who never lets you fall asleep thinking you’re unwanted.”
— Unknown
“you’re so polite with your sadness. you don’t want to ruin this for anyone.”
— — Silas Melvin, from “Twenty,” Grit
“Someone somewhere is searching for you in every person they meet.”
— Unknown
“Go and love someone exactly as they are. then, watch how they transform into the greatest truest version of themselves. when one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.”
— Wes Angelozzi
You are not a bad person for struggling with jealousy, hatred, disgust, or any other emotions we perceive as ugly. You are allowed to feel.
I knew the second I saw you. I don’t know what I knew, but I knew it and I’ve never been more sure of anything.
“Note to self: You’ve gotta do this for you. This is for you. This isn’t about anybody. Live for you. Honor you. Never lose sight of that.”
— Unknown
“and at some point I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.”
— Unknown
“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.”
— John Green
“and at some point I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.”
— Unknown
GQP/MAGA: 'My body, my choice' but not women.
Damn babygirl your worldview is relentlessly negative and terrifying