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this year has been rough for all of us. we’re all hurting in one way or another and my personal experience is no exception. this year i wanted to allow myself to become more vulnerable. i decided to go after the things i wanted and/or wanted more of in my life and open myself up to possibilities as well as rejection. unfortunately so much of what/who i’ve opened up myself to have led to some very painful rejection. i don’t know if i want to continue being as vulnerable as i have been. i’m beginning to lose hope that being the way that i am will help me find the happiness that i want in my life. right now all i wanna do is just crawl into my shell and lick my wounds and then come back out and just focus on me for a while. maybe permanently. that’s probably not true because there’s really no such thing as permanence but getting hurt is so painful and it stays around so long. emotional pain never truly goes away. it’s like a scar. it just stays there and no matter how long it’s been, some days i’m reminded of how much it hurt the very moment it happened. 

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where my friends find me after a night out 

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True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.⁣

Brianna West (via theemotionmachine)

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I have so much of you in my heart.

John Keats (via bnmxfld)

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I hope that you choose love again and again and again, no matter what has happened to you in your past. Don’t give up on it. Your entire being is composed of it.

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‘til the end of time

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So please never settle when it comes to love. Never accept a love that doesn’t fight for you and continue to give you their wholehearted best. Never silent the voice in your head when you feel that something is terribly wrong yet you couldn’t put a finger on it. Never diminish your worth and stay with someone who doesn’t make you happier than you ever been. Never think that you need love to feel complete.

(Source: thoughtcatalog.com)

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Now, I realize that when you truly love someone, you will never want to fix them. Because love is not about fixing someone, it’s fixing ourselves.

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Even if you’re not aware of it, it’s likely that your emotions will influence someone around you today.

This can happen during our most basic exchanges, say on your commute to work. “If someone smiles at you, you smile back at them,” says sociologist Nicholas Christakis of Yale University. “That’s a very fleeting contagion of emotion from one person to another.”

But it doesn’t stop there. Emotions can spread through social networks almost like the flu or a cold. And, the extent to which emotions can cascade is eye-opening.

For instance, Christakis’ research has shown that if you start to become happier with your life, a friend living close by has a 25 percent higher chance of becoming happy too. And your partner is more likely to feel better as well. The happiness can even spread to people to whom you’re indirectly connected.

To document this, Christakis and his colleagues mapped out the face-to-face interactions of about 5,000 people living in one town, over the course of 32 years. Their emotional ups and downs were documented with periodic surveys. “We were able to show that as one person became happy or sad, it rippled through the network,” Christakis says.

It’s not just happiness that spreads, unhappiness and anger can be contagious, too.

Anger Can Be Contagious - Here’s How To Stop The Spread

Illustration: Ariel Davis for NPR