has anyone else noticed that being alive is like, not the most dignified experience ever
But everywhere,
the pain suckles you. Everywhere, you hold its lumpy head to your breast like a saint.
the pain suckles you. Everywhere, you hold its lumpy head to your breast like a saint.
"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days... Lightly, lightly - it's the best advice ever given me... to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling..."
I wish I could tell the wind to carry my message and whisper to you that you did well. You always think you are not strong enough to fight the silent battles in your mind, not good enough to receive the kindness and love this world has to offer, and not brave enough to walk out from the darkness that has consumed you for so long. The truth is, you are enough. You just don't realize how capable you are, despite everything life has thrown at you. Even if the words are left unsaid, may the whispering winds deliver the pride I hold for you; that you did well, despite it all.
Maybe the journey isn't about becoming anything.
Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart