#overcoming difficulties

[flowers-roses]

[normwerner]

Nobody said it would be easy…

In yesterday’s post I talked about viewing life as a journey and advised that you embrace and enjoy that journey. I also mentioned that the journey might take you through some dark places. Those are the difficult roads that you might hit. I did not say yesterday that making the journey would be easy. There will be difficult stretches along the way. That might involve setbacks to the progress…

[quotelr]

Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances? It takes grace and enough strength, to get up and begin again

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

[maximura]

[aois-amaterasu-painting]

Thinking about Ruki.. He had to mourn so many of his loved ones..

Of course all his songs are about death and grief... His life is nothing but continuous grief. But he takes all that pain and turns it into art. Songs for us , to help us, to heal us. Because his own capacity for pain allows him to reach people that are in depths of despair. That is his power.

Those messages from last week... I will not forget the infinite care and gentleness he showed.

[t-u-i-t-c]

"But I don't think I made the wrong call, back then."

[transmechanicus]

Woke up from my little power outage nap and couldn’t even manage to eat a full box of macked cheese, grad school will fuck you up for life kids, do it at your own risk.

[normally-blue]

Character lineup for my post-apocalyptic climbing zine !!

[griseldabanks]

Comfyvember 10

Story: clone sister (original) Prompts: Overcoming fear — Sharing a bed — Lullaby

Lightning flashed. Thunder growled. Lily sighed and rolled over, squinting at the light from her phone as she checked the time. Four hours until she had to get up for work, and she couldn't sleep. Tomorrow was going to be just wonderful.

Another crash of thunder. It wasn't just how loud the storm was. She hadn't been able to sleep through a storm in five years.

With a defeated sigh, Lily sat up and turned on the lamp on her bedside table. High time she admitted defeat and just did something useful. She picked up her phone and scrolled through a few playlists before picking one filled with soft, soothing music. She just needed something to focus on instead of the rain pounding the windows.

Loving and fighting Accusing, denying I can't imagine a world with you gone

Hmm. Not her favorite, but....

Lightning flashed again, and beneath the sound of the thunder that shook the whole house, Lily heard the sound of a tiny squeak. Looking up, she found that the door to her room stood ajar, though it was hard to tell if the squeak had come from the hinges or the small girl peering through the gap.

“Ivy? What are you doing up?” Another roll of thunder answered her question. “Are you scared?”

Ivy's round eyes glistened in the golden light of the lamp. “My heart is pounding very hard....”

Lily rolled her eyes. “Yeah, that means you're scared. Why didn't you go get Mom and Dad?”

Ivy shrank back a little into the shadows. “Your light is on. They are asleep. I do not know why...but I did not want to be alone.”

Hold on, I still want you... Come back, I still need you...

“Well, come in, then,” Lily said impatiently. “No sense in just standing in the doorway.”

Ivy slipped inside and carefully pushed the door shut behind her. She didn't come any closer, just stared at Lily with that flat, unnerving stare. Not for the first time, Lily wished they'd had enough to afford some kind of personality conditioning before they brought her home, even if it wasn't Rose's personality.

The next blast of thunder came an instant after the flash of lightning, deafeningly close. Sounded like the storm was right overhead. Since Lily was already looking at Ivy's face, she saw the exact moment her face scrunched up with fear, eyes going wide, forehead furrowing, breath catching....

They pull you in to feel your heartbeat Can you hear me screaming, “Please don't leave me”?

Rose used to be scared of thunder. When she was Ivy's age, she would run crying into their parents' room on a night like this. She never went to Lily for comfort.

But...Ivy wasn't Rose.

Lily pulled the covers aside. “Come on. You can sleep with me tonight.”

Ivy darted forwards, vaulting up onto the bed and diving under the covers. Lily couldn't suppress a small smile as she tucked the blanket around the little bundle of warmth curling up against her side.

I don't wanna let go I know I'm not that strong I just wanna hear you Saying, "Baby, let's go home."

As she lay down beside Ivy, Lily wondered if she would get any sleep at all this night. But maybe at least Ivy would.

[dramoor]

Sometimes life is brutal, but meaning is derived from perseverance. The Tao says, ‘One who persists is a person of purpose’.

Lao Tzu

[moltengoldveins]

Goodness. The hollow Pit in my stomach after That Conversation. Wow.

Look, I’m not gonna over analyze this. I have a migraine. But the incomprehensibly painful parallels between Vr-La and Maxim are Hurting me.

From what we can tell, they’ve both lost someone close to them due to the adventuring lifestyle. But Maxim has responded with self isolation and defense against pain, while Vr-La has responded with the mentality of ‘yeah, life is gonna hurt. Nothing can stop that. You find what joy you can despite it.’ And those are Fundamentally Incompatible Philosophies. And that Sucks but it’s also Beautiful.

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Nothing better than when you brainstorm a whole new angle on a story that opens up a wide vista of possibilities and turns a blocked idea into something that could become a complete and satisfying narrative.

Nothing worse than when you write those new ideas down and discover it's still nowhere near enough to write a whole story.

[fleuresdumonde]

The good thing about HP marking a generation is that we are now in the goldmine of wizard school anime parody, and some of them are actually good and/or hilarious

[quotelr]

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...

Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

[angelnumber27]

No matter how bad things get I can handle it 100%. I can get through anything and everything

[otaku-tactician]

damn. black and white by sal jiang is quite a good yuri manga. two women who are doing their best to get ahead in the corporate world, and clash fiercely against each other- in ways that are pretty uncouth and violent- yet always end up banging XD

eh its nice, i admit i do like a break from all the 'pure lily sweet flowers' yuri manga sometimes. letting women be flawed and messy is fun. but this one hits in an uncomfortable place that i can relate to.