#it's the light at the end of the tunnEl
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5 years ago, I was in Rehab.
10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.
But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.
One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.
Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.
For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.
But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.
Happy.
It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.
Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.
It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.
A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.
5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.
It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.
Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.
I’m a Rescue.
She gave me a Home.
And, so, I gave her a Family.
It seemed fair
This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.
don’t give up yet, ok?
It could get good, even.
#troglodyte thoughts#tales from Real Life#cw addiction#cw alcohol#sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an approaching train#run#fight#hide#SURVIVE#do not go into the light#there are unpet dogs#and unhugged children#and unseen sunsets#and maybe even love#even for a wretch like me#the best part of your life might be old age#you don’t know
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#it feels like the light at the end of the tunnel is hell fire#spn#supernatural#castiel#destiel#dean winchester
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in order to live a happy life, you must romanticize everything (and see a good therapist).
#so i have passed another semester and now I'm on vacations#and im happy to post at this account again and from now onwards I'll post continuously#life is treating me good and i start cherishing small things again#hope you guys are also having good days and if not then trust me after every dark tunnel there's light at the end#dark academia#light academia#excerpts#fragments#poetry#romanticism#spilled thoughts#words#spilled ink#writings#on life#life quotes#therapy#spilled writing#writings on tumblr#soft academia#daily poem#funny post
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Eyecatch redraw
#pokemon horizons#anipoke#pokemon#orla#orio#metagross#screenshot redraw#this is the light at the end of the tunnel for me#gorgeous beautiful woman and her big scary dog(adorable)#my stuff
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artblock = heads facing right (whoops secret reupload as i made some small adjustments to sniper as he looked daft. him/soldier/engie are definitely the toughest mercs for me to draw)
#sorry these are so animationy#tf2 fanart#tf2 sniper#tf2 demoman#tf2#i think im seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but i've done some truly naff drawings this week
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Procrastination doodles of sabo for the king sabo au :)
#one piece#sabo#king sabo au#I wonder sometimes if I keep thinking about this au because i like putting my blorbo through crushing existential nightmares#something something. it must feel so wrong to him. to be born like this and know that he’s not suppose to be there#but not having the memories of times in the wild with his brothers to contextualize why he feels wrong or where he’s supposed to be instead#directionless. knowing that he has to exist for some reason but not the reason that everyone around him tells him he should exist for#and continuing to try to bridge the cognitive dissonance through fallacy after fallacy until he is in too deep to escape#anyways. thinking about Him#Him is the academia mentality of ‘just keep going and you’ll eventually reach the light at the end of the tunnel’#‘because you’ve tried so hard to get here and surely you must belong here because you’re so academically highly-achieving’#does that make sense? maybe the parallel is a bit of a reach. I could write an essay about it tbh#I love this au lmao it’s both a lot of projecting and a great chance to be like ‘god I can make him so much worse’
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idk you guys there’s something about orym previously being so willing to follow will into death and letting his grief eat him alive but now telling the matron that it’s pretty great living a lifetime while holding dorian’s gaze and smiling at him, orym and dorian both going through so much pain and grief in life yes but being alive also means experiencing and finding love and joy
#*#critical role#dorym#like i genuinely think we can say that dorian’s love has healed orym in a way#emphasis on healed not cured not fixed but *healed* him#healing doesn’t mean forgetting or replacing it just means one day you wake up and it’s easier to breathe#it’s easier to see through the smoke and clouds#it’s easier to see the light at the end of the tunnel
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I couldn't stop making more and more of these small ink vignette illustrations for the art zine
#dracula#phonograph appreciation duo#mina harker#john seward#bram stoker#windows into dracula#art zine#now test printing the booklet#seeing the light at the end of this gothic tunnel#bram stokers dracula#illustration#book illustration#my art#dracula daily#re: dracula#ink illustration#drawing#jack seward
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just put down seven words for flwogb ch25. we are so back.
#ive been so severely burnt out this last year but i think we're just reaching the light at the end of the tunnel for it#lets just hope its not (another) incoming train.#but these are the first seven words ive committed to in nearly a year!!! so lets see <3#flwogb
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rent/food help request!
rent: 14/675
i need to get some food in the house and also get my landlord at least a partial payment towards may rent. i have about $14 right now, lol. ko-fi / cashapp / venmo
if anyone could help with *anything* i'd appreciate it. thank you!!!
#mutual aid#trans#rent help#finally feeling a light at the end of the tunnel but still need help getting through while i get fully back on my feet#thank you friends <3 <3 <3
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drawpile doodle
#🧻 sharts#gravity falls#stanley pines#wendy corduroy#OOOOOOUUUUUUUGH MIDTERMS WANT ME DEAD. DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!#the light at the end of the tunnel.. i can see it ..
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Watching the real-time election results while doomscrolling politics tags is probably the most actively stressful thing I could conceivably do, and yet I’m doing it anyway
#us politics#us elections#I feel like I’m gonna have a heart attack and I can hear my family praying in the other room#please let there be light at the end of the tunnel come the end of this
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like the whole warriors concept album does things to me but like I can't aptly describe the extreme chills felt in a light or something's "The light at the end of the tunnel's got nothing on you!"
#the harmonization the longing#also its about time we get a sapphic musical couple duet again#but holy shit this album this song so so so so good#likr something fucking new in the musical scene and its so damn refreshing i love it#THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL'S GOT NOTHING ON YOUUU#warriors album#lin manuel miranda#julia harriman#jasmine cephas jones#warriors the musical
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#Guess he did find that light at the end of the tunnel#anyways first photo is from ep 6 of Find A Way Out#second is Akitos trained card for Burn My Soul#project sekai#akito shinonome#shinonome akito#vivid bad squad#vbs akito#pjsk akito#pjsk#project sekai colorful stage
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I just saw someone translate Martin’s name to polish so it’s Marcin Czarnoleski
I’m crying, this is adorable
#I know only few people will even know how to pronounce it but let me have it#it’s fucking ADORABLE#I love Martin#he is my light at the end of the tunnel
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Life is hectic enough these days that my sleep schedule is now fully randomized. Slept from about 9:00 pm - 4:30 am last night and it was some of the best sleep I’ve had in a while
#less than three weeks left of grad school#light at the end of the tunnel etc. etc.#I think I might just go in to the office at 8:00 and then leave early today
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