Becoming less reactive is a big part of growth & decreasing stress. Sometimes this type of avoidance can be looked at as lack of interest or uncaring, but it isn’t. If you let everything get you worked up, you’re damaging your mind, body & soul
you are not a burden.
mental illness is. chronic pain is. prejudice is. hate is. harm is.
but you, you are not a burden. the things you endure are the burdens.
“Loneliness introduced me to the hands that killed me. Loneliness introduced me to the love that destroyed me. Loneliness introduced me to the path that lost me.”
— Dilsoz Hama, excerpt from My Poetry Depicts You: An Anthology of Contemporary Kurdish Poetry, ed. Rebwar Fatah
“In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”
— Ally Condie
“Promise me not to hide yourself when you’re in pain, it’s unfair that we laughed together but you cried alone”
— Unknown
“You are worth finding. Worth knowing. Worth loving. You and all your one million layers. Always hold that close.”
— Danielle Doby
Beyoncé
photographed by Carlijn Jacobs for her album ACT I RENAISSANCE
