[A white fortune cookie paper with black text on the front and an icon of a bee. It reads: It’s time for you to learn to dance in the rain rather than wait for sun.]

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I just want to be surrounded by so much love in my life. And not just relationships. Love for my job, my home, the stars, the sunsets, the place I live where ever in the world that is. I want to experience love in all forms

Once my boyfriend told me: "You're not a burden. A burden is something you're forced to carry against your will. I freely choose to be a part of your life and that means you aren't a burden to me." I'm passing it on in case some of you need to be reminded of that.

if something someone did to you was harmful and outright cruel, it’s not our responsibility or obligation to forgive them. however, it is our responsibility not to pass the cruelty and hurt onto someone else.

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i hope you manage to take comfort in the fact that it'll end. that your pain will slip away even if it feels so heavy and all-consuming, that a bad day will wrap itself up into a memory, that a toxic and hurtful friendship will someday be a story to tell when you're asked for advice. we are small and days and experiences and pain are big, but we're also more. we have the power to leave behind what harms us, to go forward through bad days and good ones, to feel everything and then come to peace with it and let go. you're stronger, more resilient and forever on the move. it'll be alright.