be kind

you learn to love people by loving people.

[fatimazainab]

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[soulmvtes]

morning spent studying at one of my favourite cafes :-)

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[dark-alleys]

had a walk now I shouldnt be insane anymore

[shisasan]

Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say.

August 2nd, 1963 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

[sunsetpink]

oscar de la renta spring 2015 rtw

[animentality]

[55five]

If it’s meant to be I’ll see you later

[kosmogrl]

[thememedaddy]

[cudles]

—Mahmoud Darwish

[poemwav]

– Jamie Oliveira | from "Erosion"

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ❀ )

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

mary oliver, ‘from this river, when i was a child, i used to drink’

[ID: “‘What, precisely, will you grieve for?’ For the river. For myself, my lost joyfulness. For the children who will not know what a river can be—a friend, a companion, a hint of heaven.” end ID]

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

[mortalityplays]

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

[flowerytale]

James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk Florence and the Machine, from Various Storms & Saints Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Heart imagery by Andrea Zanatelli Eye with Tear (oil paint and resin tear on canvas) by Nancy Fouts Douleur d'amour (detail) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau