rohini

[soracities]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

[handwrittenloveletter-deactivat]

Backwards, Warsan Shire

[valtsv]

i LOVE being able to hide my activity online i LOVE messaging services that don't show read receipts i LOVE turning off notifications i LOVE being able to hear someone knocking at my door and pretending i'm not home

[cdzen]

so true real btw omg and literally are the most important words in the english language

[fairycosmos]

has a breakdown about what a lonely life it is. goes for a walk with headphones in. purchases a beverage at the supermarket. you know how it goes

[bleekay]

its so shiddy when u have to convince yourself to do your hobbies. like, its fun, you like it, why cant you just do it. do it. do it. but what if.... mindless media consumption instead....

[bleekay]

im so sorry to the seven thousand of you so far who relate

[g1sunstreaker]

upset at the accuracy of these tags

[siir-poesia]

[flowerais-archive]

[exhaled-spirals]

« The gardener working under my window is an admirer of the world. He doesn’t think in terms of ‘producing’ plants. He cultivates. He helps grow that which exists without him. He doesn’t create, doesn’t build; he takes care of. Hence his humbleness. […] Plants often outdo him; he doesn’t feel shame or bitterness, but rather the dignity of belonging. »

— Chantal Delsol, La haine du monde

[lungthief]

i miss the late 2000s trend where artists would play their own romantic rivals in music videos

[lungthief]

now THIS was cinema

[moonisee]

[day-dreamersclub]

i pray that aug, sep, oct, nov and dec are all months full of growth, blessings, productivity, new doors open and opportunities

[dark-romantics]

The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.

Rodger Kamenetz, from Terra Infirma (University of Arkansas Press, 1985)

[loveyourlovelysoul]

The more we focus on the results we want to achieve and how long it is taking us to get them, the more we are stressing ourselves and losing the joy and passion we had in the beginning. Let's stop doing this but enjoy the process, no matter how long it will take: results will come the moment we will be ready to get them and enjoy them, and appreciate each step of the way that took us to get them.

[khayriya-deactivated20250830]

i really hope august is beautiful for me

[jacayls-deactivated20230529]

here it is a collection of poems about hope and or holding on despite everything !

I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay

A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde

Snowdrops by Louise Glück

Most Days I Want to Live by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Insha’Allah by Danusha Laméris

A Good Day by Kait Rokowski

Invitation by Mary Oliver

Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón

Tommorow is a Place by Sanna Wani

The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke

To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Night Walk by Franz Wright

Sorrow is Not My Name by Ross Gay

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

The Letter by Linda Greg

Testify by Eve L. Ewing

Every Day as a Wide Field, Every Page by Naomi Shihab Nye

[sunshine-reminders]

life hack: don’t think of things as selfish.

i want you to repeat this again, and again, and again: self care is not selfish.

taking an hour in the bath to settle yourself when all that you feel like doing is something worse is not selfish. it is healthy and okay. you are allowed to take time for yourself.

not wanting to talk to others is not selfish. we do not blame cats when they want to be alone, we give them their space. you are allowed to take time for yourself.

wanting to be complimented and validated by others is not selfish. would you ever shame someone for wanting praise? we do not scorn the dogs that seek our approval, nor should we scorn ourselves. you are allowed to seek out approval.

it is not selfish. it is taking care of yourself, and at the end of the day, please do not forget: self care will never be selfish.