Ari

Aut inveniam viam aut faciam

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A Rare Language

My words

never arrive

the way I mean them to.

They scatter

like startled birds,

becoming

more feeling

than language.

I lose them

before I can hold them,

offering you

only fragments—

sentences

stitched together

by trembling.

Yet somehow,

you understand.

Or perhaps

you do not.

Perhaps

you simply listen

until my chaos

sounds like a language.

I have never learned

how to speak

my heart

without breaking it apart.

But you—

you have always been

fluent

in my silences.

What a dream it would be to meet someone who doesn't ask your heart to be eloquent before they choose to hear it. Someone who isn't troubled by unfinished sentences, tangled thoughts, or emotions too large for language. They don't demand clarity; they wait with quiet patience until your fragments become a story. Perhaps people like that are rare. Or perhaps they are only found in dreams.

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Echo

Each night,

I think of you

so I might dream

of your face.

Yet even sleep

denies me.

Perhaps it knows

what I cannot bear—

that even if

you glanced my way,

by morning,

you would not remember

my name.

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The Man Who Looked Back

Do not mourn

the man who turned.

Mourn instead

the world

that asked love

to walk

without doubt.

For the Orpheus

who never looked back

is not the Orpheus

who would have crossed

the threshold

of the dead.

Only a heart

that feared

one final silence

would descend

into the underworld—

and only such a heart

would break

beneath its weight.

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Some people arrive in our lives like constellations—beautiful, distant, and impossible to hold. This piece is for the hearts that learn to love in silence, gathering warmth from borrowed glances and brief moments of light. It lingers in the space between admiration and ache, where affection blooms without promise and longing becomes its own quiet language. Here, love is not a possession but a horizon: endlessly beautiful, endlessly out of reach.

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A short reflection on the quiet disappointment that lingers when something beautiful on the surface fails to satisfy the soul beneath.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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"We were never the same color, yet somehow we became a shade neither of us could name."

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Dreaming with My Eyes Wide Open

They say dreams are born in the quiet hours of sleep, beneath blankets of starlight and borrowed moons.

Perhaps they are.

But I have always loved the dreams that arrive in daylight, their pockets full of horizons, their hands stained with possibility.

The ones that perch on windowsills at dawn, whispering through the cracks of ordinary mornings, turning the mundane into something worth believing in.

A wish is a bird content to circle the sky.

A dream is the wind beneath its wings.

It does not ask to be admired from afar. It asks to be followed.

Across uncertain roads. Through seasons of doubt. Toward destinations that exist first in the heart before they ever appear on a map.

And so I carry mine like a lantern against the dark, cupping its fragile light between hopeful hands.

Not because I know where it will lead, but because some callings are meant to be trusted before they are understood.

Perhaps that is the truest kind of dreaming.

Not the kind that visits in sleep and fades with the morning tide,

but the kind that lingers in your chest like a compass, pulling you toward distant shores, until one day you realize

the dream was never a place you were trying to reach.

It was a river,

teaching you how to become.

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I don't think love failed just because it hurt.

Some loves stay, others become memories, but to have loved sincerely is its own kind of victory. If I must let it go, then I will do so gently—grief by grief, memory by memory—grateful that it was real when it was mine.

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Somewhere between holding on and holding us together, I lost my spark. Now I find myself searching for the woman I used to be—the one who felt alive, curious, and free.

Some losses are loud. Others happen so quietly that you only notice them when you catch yourself wondering where your laughter went, where your dreams wandered off to, or when you stopped feeling like yourself.

I kept believing that if I tried harder, loved deeper, or held on a little longer, things would eventually feel right. But somewhere in the process of preserving a relationship, I began neglecting my relationship with myself.

This is not a story about blame. It is about remembering. Remembering the woman who had her own voice, her own passions, and her own light. The woman who felt alive, curious, and free.

Perhaps the journey ahead is not about finding someone else, but finding my way back to myself.

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Prism

I'll take you there one day. Don't forget the blue paint.

A rainbow is sunlight passing through a thousand tiny prisms of rain, revealing colors it carried all along.

Maybe that's why I think of you.

You do not ask the world for permission to be beautiful— you simply exist, and ordinary days bloom into color.

Like a rainbow, you reveal hues I never knew I needed, and somehow make the world brighter just by being in it.

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Art and love share the same truth: neither needs permission to be real. The most meaningful creations—and the deepest feelings—are born from authenticity, not validation.

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Mile by Mile

I run through burnout, self-doubt, and days when my emotions feel impossible to untangle.

Some days, showing up is the hardest part. Yet I keep running—not to escape myself, but to find myself.

Each step teaches me that self-love is not a destination but a practice: choosing kindness over criticism, patience over perfection, and growth over giving up.

Because before I can love someone else fully, I must first learn how to love myself completely.

And so I keep moving forward, mile by mile, becoming the person I need most. 🏃‍♀️🤍

#RunningJourney #SelfLove #Healing #PersonalGrowth #MentalHealth #BurnoutRecovery #RunnerLife #SelfDiscovery #MindfulLiving #LoveYourselfFirst

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To be cherished so deeply that forgotten pieces of yourself begin to return. To find your voice, your strength, and your light reflected in the eyes of someone who believes in you. That is love—not possession, but creation. ✨🤍

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Love isn't measured by the outcome. It's measured by the courage to care, the strength to stay kind, and the willingness to believe in something greater than yourself. A heart that loves deeply never truly loses.

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always think of this meme when this scene comes up