goodnight-lenin
Something that has really helped me grow and focus on myself is reminding myself that we are not on linear paths. Not everyone is parallel to you, and not everyone is going in the same direction. I’ve learned in order to grow I have had to first take care of myself at the ground level. I was expecting to be on the same track as everyone else but everyone else has not been through what I have. They haven’t lived my experiences and I haven’t lived through theirs. We are random data, we aren’t correlated. We’re all on our own paths trying to do what’s best for us. It does not make sense to compare. It’s just amazing we are all here.
“Having an eating disorder is… exhausting. It’s the only word I can use to describe it, it’s… physically exhausting, obviously, no matter what disorder you have it’s gonna affect your body- and it’s so emotionally taxing and painful. It causes you to feel such intense shame and hatred for yourself, but also such… intense pride in what you’re doing that at times you’re living in this constant emotional conflict with yourself. And what you’re doing is just something that your body is biologically trained to avoid- and it’s a civil war, to be fighting against yourself. Either way, nobody’s gonna win.”
— Isa Gueye, Civil War Sickness, 2015
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
Source: thequotejournals
fleetnaturals-deactivated202110
me pushing forward with my life even though i didn’t plan to live past the age of 21
A person with an abusive nature will always register you standing up for yourself as an act of betrayal. Betray them.
spacejelly710
This is so important. As a good person, you may choose to stick around to prove to someone that you’re not a bad person. You have nothing to prove to a bad person. You cannot help everyone. You cannot fix everyone. It’s not your fault.
someone said ‘the version of me you created in your mind is not my responsibility’ and wow
