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ritikajyala

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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A Blue Hour Full Moon : Nature photographers and other fans of planet Earth always look forward to the blue hour. That’s the transition in twilight, just before sunrise or after sunset, when the Sun is below the horizon but land and sky are still suffused with a beautiful blue light. After sunset on August 21, this blue hour snapshot captured the nearly full Moon as it rose opposite the Sun, above the rugged Italian Alps from Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Sharing bluish hues with the sky, the rocky pyramid of Monte Antelao, also known as the King of the Dolomites, is the region’s prominent alpine peak. The moonlight is yellow, but even so this full Moon was known to some as a seasonal Blue Moon. That’s because by one definition the third full Moon of a season with four full moons in it is called a Blue Moon. Recognizing a season as the time between a solstice and an equinox, this season’s fourth full Moon will be rising in the blue hour of September 20, just before September’s equinox. via NASA

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Honestly being overworked makes people unobservant and passive and it literally kills people every day. People don’t seem to realize that an overworked nurse might not notice your sepsis symptoms and a tired truck driver might not notice your car when he’s merging into the lane. Failing to protect worker’s rights impacts nearly everyone

We were meant to be, just not made to last.

I'm sitting here having a drink. I'm trying not to feel what's weighing the most on my heart and mind right now. I know we aren't going to stay together. That thought crushes me. Except, it's just a little less than it used to be. It used to feel like the world would end. Like everything would come crashing down. But... Now, it feels like I could finally bear it. It still breaks my fucking heart. But now I know that one day it'll heal. It didn't feel like that before. I couldn't get past the ending. I couldn't see the other side. Now I know there's another side. And that, to get there, I have to endure all the pain. That I have to let go.

I wanted to believe that you were endgame. I wanted that so bad. I think wanting it so bad was the problem. And now letting go is the hardest thing to do. I just can't keep doing this. I thought that I would be able to trust you again. I thought I would be able to feel safe with you again. But, then you hurt me. Again. And I realized that you are entirely capable of hurting me. That when you want to and if you think I deserve it, you will. There is nothing stopping you from doing it again or doing more. And I realized that if you will do that, you will keep doing it. And then I realized that if you really loved me, you wouldn't do that. You would never hurt me no matter what, if you just loved me enough. You don't love me. Not really. You never did. And you never will. I can see that now. I can accept it now. Even if it breaks me to pieces.

I love you. And I always will. Goodnight.

I see and read things on social media about trying to be better everyday. "Take those babysteps" because progress is progress no matter how small. And that this is growth. I know this. I understand this but... Then I see, read, and hear about accepting who we are at this moment. About loving our messy, imperfect selves and being at peace with it. And therein lies a dilemma. How can I love myself right now while also trying to improve upon that self? Is this not a paradox? These days I find myself in a near constant negative state of mind because I want to be better. I'm always overlooking any progress or any little things that I could be celebrating because I'm not as far as I want to be. I'm just not who I want to be yet. So then I don't improve, or at least I don't see any improvement. Does this dilemma solve itself once I start loving and accepting myself first? Then does growth take place once I am able to recognize my own progress? So then I begin to see things differently, in a positive light rather than a negative one. And I am able to appreciate the babysteps and where they are taking me.

I believe I just discovered that with no one to talk to, writing out my thoughts and reading it aloud helps me process them. If I write as if I am talking to someone, it's almost the same as really talking to someone. Hm.

Goodnight.

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Ring Galaxy AM 0644 741 : The rim of the large blue galaxy at the right is an immense ring-like structure 150,000 light years in diameter composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars. AM 0644-741 is known as a ring galaxy and was caused by an immense galaxy collision. When galaxies collide, they pass through each other and their individual stars rarely come into contact. The large galaxy’s ring-like shape is the result of the gravitational disruption caused by a small intruder galaxy passing through it. When this happens, interstellar gas and dust become compressed, causing a wave of star formation to move out from the impact point like a ripple across the surface of a pond. Other galaxies in the field of view are background galaxies, not interacting with AM 0644-741. Foreground spiky stars are within our own Milky Way. But the smaller intruder galaxy is caught above and right, near the top of the frame taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Ring galaxy AM 0644-741 lies about 300 million light years away toward the southern constellation Volans. via NASA

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Mimas in Saturnlight : Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Mimas lies in near darkness alongside a dramatic sunlit crescent. The mosaic was captured near the Cassini spacecraft’s final close approach on January 30, 2017. Cassini’s camera was pointed in a nearly sunward direction only 45,000 kilometers from Mimas. The result is one of the highest resolution views of the icy, crater-pocked, 400 kilometer diameter moon. An enhanced version better reveals the Saturn-facing hemisphere of the synchronously rotating moon lit by sunlight reflected from Saturn itself. To see it, slide your cursor over the image (or follow this link). Other Cassini images of Mimas include the small moon’s large and ominous Herschel Crater. via NASA