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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

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screw it!!! im going to savor every moment!!! im going to appreciate the trees!! im going to live!!!

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there is always tomorrow

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On hope

night walk, franz wright// hope in the dark, rebecca solnit// ? // ? // just give me a reason, pink// shake it off, taylor swift// @ hiddengemm_ on x // @mounaks // to be made whole, ada limon// @garcavisconde // jane massey// orange juice, noah kahan// why why why, shawn mendes// ?// august, taylor swift

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i think about this very often to but to be alive is such a privilege. you can smell flowers, eat freshly baked cookies, lose yourself in the pages of a new book, listen to heartwarming music and read soul crushing poetry, meet kind and funny people, learn something new. i think the miracle is in waking up every day

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we were meant to live slowly!!!! we were meant to savor moments and feel unabashedly lazy and frolic and smell the flowers and laugh with our entire hearts and love with our entire souls!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for resting!!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for slowing down!!!!!! enjoying life shouldn’t be something you’re ashamed of

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Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

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You deserve a healthy love with someone who hears you, sees you, understands you, appreciates you, supports you, and loves you. Someone who is patient, communicates clearly, and creates a calm safe space to heal, grow, and bloom together. A love you don't have to heal from.

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If hurting me does not hurt you, you don’t love me. You’re using me.

k.b // by jerry flowers jr

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this year, for the first time i was gifted with handwritten letters, and let me tell you, it was the most beautiful thing i could've ever asked for. for someone, to take some time out from their busy schedule to write about me, when they could've done anything. its like saying, "yes i love you and you matter to me. you're someone who holds importance in my life."

i had always read about how handwritten letters are like love, but in written, physical form. i had always dreamt of how that love would feel like. wondered, if it was really as devastatingly beautiful as other people described it.

and then, i had the chance to experience it for myself, to feel that love that love pour from a piece of paper. and when i tell you,i was overwhelmed. overwhelmed in every way, there was love, grief, regret, elation, and guilt. i hated myself for how i couldn't return their feelings in the same way, but at the same time, felt so much love oozing out for them at the thought that they loved me regardless. the grief i had for the love i had preserved, and the elation from knowing that even then, i could be loved. he didn't even know how much i needed the reassurance at that moment. how much i needed to know if i could ever be someone whom people think of as a good person. how much i needed to know if could ever be good enough for anyone.

so when i tell you guys, express your live to your people as much as you can. you might not know when they need it. maybe expressing your love for them may be a simple task for you, but for them, it may mean the world, even if not in the same context (romantic and/or platonic)

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to,

you,

In my life the place called love, wife, muse, girlfriend i have placed you permanently. I can't even think of someone in any way. Even if you stay or not. I can't even imagine a face or a name other than yours because i know we both are not perfect and have different ambitions in many ways & i won't be getting everything i imagined from you in my way but all i know is that whatever happens, wherever life takes it'll be you and me. no third person. no other girl in this whole world has that guts or personality to replace your name. That's how i love you. it's you, that's it. my tongue will tremble if i have to say "i wanna marry you" or if i put someone else's image in my future family or if i see myself kissing someone else after winning a trophy, i just can't. that's how i loved you since epoch. I left no possibility of letting someone even sit on the bench of my thoughts. i haven't even left a possibility factor that i have to join my name with someone else.

apollo

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Offer to let other people go ahead of you in line, especially if you're approaching the line at the same time. This is double applicable if you're in a store and the other person has fewer items than you.

This is a small gesture of kindness that in most cases will cost you very little time or effort. It shows consideration for other people's time. Especially in the case of being in a store and letting someone with fewer items than you go first, there is no sense in making someone else wait for you who would otherwise be able to get in and out much quicker.

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yes communication is important, but being in a situation where you constantly have to over-communicate every single thing in order to get listened and tended to is draining and kills romance. a huge part of intimacy and connection is feeling seen and understood by the other person – them being attuned to your needs, feelings, desires, and knowing who you are as a person on a deeper level, is a sign of love. being with someone who is thoughtless and inconsiderate and constantly has to have everything spelled out to them, will leave you feeling invisible and unloved. yes people aren’t mind readers and its good to talk about stuff but someone who just doesn’t think of you or understand basic things that would make you happy, isn’t a good partner.

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burn out

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I mean surely we all grew up feeling like there was a wrongness inherently deep inside us that will endure for the rest of our lives

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impusively kissing! kissing when laughing! kissing cheeks to say thanks! kissing noses! kissing foreheads! kissing hands! kissing wrists! kissing temples! kissing fingertips! lazy kissing! goodbye kisses! see you later kisses! wait for me kisses! be right back kisses! that is so stupid but i love you kissing!