tired

[studentlifeproblems]

[anxietyproblem]

[amberwavesofslain]

You're a wonderful person who has done terrible things.

[amberwavesofslain]

Betrayal is a whole different kind of hurt.

[hatin]

“Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.”

— unknown - (hatin)

[cocvino-deactivated20160219]

[timbllr]

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #4994

 For feelings of excitement for something you have not thought could be possible.  – Guest Submission

(Please don’t add negative comments to these posts.)

[amberwavesofslain]

I can understand someone's actions and thoughts and emotions, and still believe them to be wrong. I can understand why you do things and your reasoning, and they can still be abusive.

There is never one truth. It is never black and white. We make things black and white, all or nothing, because it makes us feel comfortable. It makes us feel good to identify the good guy and the bad guy. Many times, each party is the good guy AND the bad guy.

You can be strong and fragile. You can be hopeless and still have faith. You know your worth and still hate the person you see in the mirror. You can pray to a God you don't believe in to strike you down and still have faith that things will get better.

You can be all of those things. I am all of those things.

[artmania-feed]

[helenasurvives]

i am asked about my favorite color.

i am seven

and my reply is

pink

because i am a girl

and pink

is a princess color.

i am asked about my favorite color.

i am ten

and i like

green

because a boy told me that pink

is lame and girly.

i am asked about my favorite color.

i am thirteen

and i tell them

purple

it is unique and spunky

like i want to be.

i am asked about my favorite color.

i am seventeen

and i just say

red

i do not say

it is bright and angry at the world

as i am

i cannot form the words to express

all of my frustrations

so i paint my lips with

rage.

i am asked about my favorite color.

i am twenty

and it’s pink

i remember the joy

of being a child

i reclaim the freedom

of femininity

because i cannot remember

what my shoulders felt like

before the depression

hung from them.

i am asked about my favorite color.

i am twenty-six

and my answer is

brown

it confuses most people

they don’t see it

they may think of dirt

and dust

and dead things

but it is coffee with friends

and the chocolate chip cookies

my mom used to make.

it is my hair

and my eyes

amber and gold

in the sun

and i love myself

again

[anxietyproblem]

[hatin]

“I think part of the reason why we hold so tight is because we fear something so great won’t happen twice”

— unknown (via hatin)

[dadalux]

Indigo aka Biljana aka Indig0 (Serbian, b. Serbia) - Shadow Work, 2018, Mixed Media

[ymutate]

Adrian Arleo

[catadromously]

reasons.

[exitwound]

when whitman said “i contradict myself. i am large… i contain multitudes” and wilde said “what are you? to define is to limit” and sumney said “i insist upon my right to be multiple”

[existential-celestial]

and ashbery said “accept yourself as numerous”

[soracities]

and when mahmoud darwish said “I am besieged by contradiction” and when lewis carroll said “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then”