#Reasons to Stay Alive

[positivelyqueer]

all you’ve got to do is pick one activity to do tomorrow. One thing to look forward to. Find a new movie or tv show you want to watch. Check out if there are any local bands playing gigs nearby. Find a random new skill to teach yourself. Do your grocery shopping at a different supermarket. Play stardew valley with someone. Find a new recipe to learn how to cook. See what movies are in cinemas near you. Find a niche museum or community centre in your town. Explore a new park. Go to a thrift store. Go sit in the library for a few hours. Get coffee with a loved one. You can’t leave yet, you’ve got that activity to go do. Keep picking activities. I love you. Stay safe.

[melodysbookhaven]

How to stop time: kiss.

How to travel in time: read.

How to escape time: music.

How to feel time: write.

How to release time: breathe.

Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

[dongsonglodang]

"Cuộc đời mỗi người rốt cuộc cũng chỉ cần một người như thế ở bên. Người vì sợ mình buồn mà bỏ qua tất cả mọi cám dỗ, luôn trở về bên cạnh nhau sau tất cả mọi điều..."

[fishingforwords]

hold on for better days.

neil hilborn, our numbered days || matt haig, reasons to stay alive || jenny holzer, survival series || tom odell, best day of my life || mary oliver, invitation || unknown ||

[credits-roll]

Forcing yourself to see the world through love’s gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

Reasons To Stay Alive, Matt Haig

[dk-thrive]

Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.

— Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive (Penguin Life, February 23, 2016) (via Make Believe Boutique)

[tiredlakes]

reasons to stay alive

growing old is a privilege, not a curse; you will never see the face you’ll grow into with time

you won’t get to know the healed version of yourself

you’ll miss out on seeing yourself change with the seasons

you’ll die without ever having felt your own love

your survival is beautiful, you won’t be there to share your own story

reach out if you’re in pain — you will be grateful for having saved yourself when you’re older 🩶

(if you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number)

[mixedbag-o-beans]

listen there a lot of reasons why having a dead friend sucks. but currently the #1 reason is THERE IS TEA ABOUT SOME WEIRD GUY SHE TALKED TO AND I CANT TEXT HER THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT! like wtf girl, i wanna kiki but NOOOOO YOU’RE DOWN THERE KICKING IT WITH THE GRIM REAPER.

[bloodborscht]

The world may be so grating and dissonant but Andy is here and I gotta make him comfy and happy no matter what

[calmmyfears]

i didn't expected this to happen (i'm not complaining)

[void-cloud]

Reasons to stay alive: I do not want anyone to see how much trash there is in my apartment after I'm dead, but I'm also too depressed to effectively clean

[positivelyqueer]

”It would be easier for other people if I didn’t exist”

Oh, I’m sorry? When did you start existing for the approval of other people? When did you stop being crescent moon palms and iron tongue and soles scuffed on the pavement? When did you stop being grass between your toes and starlight reflected in your eyes and the answering choir of all your cells? When did you lose the pounding, thrumming, singing course of your lub dub heart through your ventricles and veins? Fuck what would be easier for others. You did not come from a burning star to be smothered and convenient.

[melodysbookhaven]

“Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.”

Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

[dongsonglodang]

"Sống ở dị quốc tha hương ngôn ngữ bất đồng, nhân chủng bất đồng không phải là cô độc. Tâm hồn không chốn quay về, mới là cô độc." (An Ni Bảo Bối)

[bookishblogging]

If you need motivation to keep going:

Don’t kill yourself. Eventually, you will literally die no matter what. Why do it now when you could just fuck around and see what’s next until nature says it’s your time? Like yeah your situation sucks but like what if it gets better tomorrow? Or what if you die tomorrow via natural causes. Like it’s either gonna get better or you will naturally die and I think waiting for it to get better is a much smarter option bc option two is inevitable. If we were to do a cost/benefit analysis, waiting it out is much more effective usage of your time. You will get to the destination, our time will run out eventually, there is absolutely no rush to get there. I love you and you deserve to live out the rest of your days chasing whatever makes you happy! Is it not incredibly meta to say you didn’t kill yourself because you’re gonna die anyways?? Like hello stay alive and say fuck you to the institution or whatever. Literally be meta for your mental health.

[lena-oleanderson]

Still Life with Citrus from Side Wounds