#forgiving yourself

[gayofthefae]

The STATEMENT they just made. They really just said it huh.

Buck is single. Eddie is emotionally available. And they end the episode together. On the couch.

It's the classic wink wink. "I'm you first, not your last"...and then he goes over to Eddie's.

I have been confident in the idea. But never have I been able to picture it on my screen as vividly as now.

[jun3sworld]

[cinnamonchaos]

Everything has changed and yet, I am more me than I have ever been.

"Your life will be wonderful because you will make it wonderful, and it will be full of love because you are full of love."

"Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you deserve to be here." - Aurealia Plath

"A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this."

"It's time to forgive my hands for being hands. I'm going to hate myself a little less tomorrow. I'm going to hate myself a little less tomorrow."

"In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you."

You haven't lost who you are, you're just different now. And that's okay.

"It's not an evil thing to look at yourself with kindness. Your life was never meant to be a punishment."

[thatweirdthingoverthere]

I just want to thank all the people who post on social media platforms with useful information on neurodivergence and its psychology.

Because it helps me understand why I do what I do, and also why I feel what I feel about what I do.

That has been very important in recent days, coming to terms with things in my life. And forgiving myself. I haven't fully yet, but the knowledge helps.

[youdonthavetocallmedarlinnn]

The Nine Essential Truths... to life, sobriety, relationships, or anything in your life that is YOUR THING.

1. It is not your fault.

2. It is your responsibility

3. It's unfair that this is your thing.

4. This is your thing

5. This will never stop being your thing until you face it

6. You cannot do it alone

7. Only you can do it

8. You are loved

9. We will never stop reminding you of these things.

By: Laura Mckowen from her book Push Off From Here.

I've listened to it twice on Spotify and both times I finished better than I was before. Laura Mckowen recounts her life before she stopped drinking and what happened in the years when she did finally quit. She is completely relatable and doesn't make you feel like shit for the things as the first truth states: are not your fault.

[autismtimetoshine]

Learning how to forgive myself for my past mistakes

Here I am, wishing that I could forgive myself for my past mistakes, failures, struggles, wrong decisions and regrets. I wish I could’ve done more in my past than I already doing now.. I wish I could learn from it. I wish I can finally forgive myself for my past and focus on my future.

Nowadays looking back then looking forward feeling like I can’t do anything I want to do anymore. I feel like I can’t even forgive myself for letting the bad things happen again and again.

Learning to forgive and forget is hard but sometimes i feel like i can’t forgive myself for my past mistakes or decisions..

After all my accomplishments i made this year, finally made me realize that I have to learn how to forgive myself for my past mistakes, struggles, decisions and regrets I made. I know that forgiveness isn’t that easy to give or to receive.. but learning from it is how strong you can be if you forgive yourself.

[stripedwolf88]

I think about what I would say to 12 year old me going through one of the hardest times of her life.

Maybe something like "Hehe. Don't worry kid. Nothing that happens after this will really compare to the pain you're feeling now. But I say that at 20. More shit could go down."

12 year old me would proceed to be like "Wow you really suck."

20 year old me: Uh...no. You suck. You caused all this.

12 year old me: I'm a kid! How was I supposed to deal with all of this?!

20 year old me: *sigh* Yeah I know. I wish you could have had more security and confidence in yourself at that time. I'm sorry you felt that you had to push her away to try and feel better about yourself. I'm sorry you felt like your voice in your own head wasn't worth listening to. I'm trying to do better now for us both.

12 year old me: Thank you. I think. I don't really understand what you mean but I think there is a reason for that.

20 year old me: Yeah. You'll start to comprehend that in a couple of years.

12 year old me: Am I...are we gonna be okay?

20 year old me: I think we will. As long as we remember to be kind and patient with ourselves. But also be strong enough to face things. I think we'll get what we truly need and want if we stick to that.

12 year old me: Does this hurt get any less? I feel like a hole has been shot through me and I can't breathe and I feel like I could just...fade away if I just curl up into a ball. I feel like this everyday.

20 year old me: It changes. You start to be able to breathe a little easier but the pain is still there. You won't think of her as often as you do now but you still think about her in the quiet moments. She will become the one you confide in in your head. You will have dreams of another life with her that you believe so much in that you can almost taste them. This will leave you with a sadness and grief but it will also renew your ability to get out of bed in the morning. Don't ask me how or why that makes sense. I haven't quite figured it out yet. Point is you'll get better at dealing with the pain. Turning it into something useful. Life is always going to bring you some sort of pain or fear but you have to remember it's going to bring joy and love right along with it. And those moments of love and joy? They are everything. Trust me kid. You're going to want to check out of this life but you gotta remember that those good times will happen again. You have to keep fighting for them okay?

12 year old me: Okay. I'll keep fighting.

20 year old me: Good. You got this. I know.

12 year old me: I think you got this too. If you can help me feel like there is hope right now, I think you're doing a good job in putting us on the right path.

20 year old me: Thanks bud. I love you.

[pineapplewritingco]

“You know. Of all the things I learned with you guys? Saving the world from yourself is the first, most necessary step.”

- David

~ Young Avengers, Issue #15 ~

[ephilog]

Growtober #30: FORGIVING yourself

Why are we always so much harder on ourselves than we'd be on others?

[thequotegarden]

Imagine meeting someone who wanted to learn your past not to punish you, but to understand how you needed to be loved.

[thepieboy]

[takemetobogman]

[blue-eyes-in-august]

I didn't expect to be tearing up on a Saturday night but here we are.

[get-inspired-for-life]

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Soup solves everything.

[neil-gaiman]

When I was like 8 I stole my schools copy of the graveyard book because I loved it so much and didn't like when it when another kid had it. Should I return it back, it's been like 10 years and I'm pretty sure it's all new staff?

If you want to.

Some twenty years ago, I was talking to a senior librarian from a library somewhere in (as I recall) the rural appalachians, who was telling me that my books were the most stolen books -- or at least the most never-returned -- books they had. I told her that I was sorry, and asked how they felt about this. And she smiled, and she said, "We like to think our books have found their people".

And while I would never approve of stealing from a library, or taking books that other people would need, I think at that moment I decided that perhaps, sometimes, and in some circumstances, it was good that the books in question had found their people.