Rosaline ❦

your voice softly awakens my heart

[exitwound]

you have to stop hating yourself for not taking care of yourself before you can start taking care of yourself in a more sustainable way

[exitwound]

it took me so long to accept this but you need self-compassion like the number one thing you need to take care of yourself is self compassion especially when you fail. self compassion is not going to hurt you or make you complacent or less motivated. You have to forgive yourself for not being there yet before you can get there and also you have to accept that getting angry at yourself when you inevitably fail or mess up is not a good method of self discipline it’s not going to work in a way that means anything and you are not going to get anywhere with it you have to find a different method of self discipline that isn’t anger or harsh self criticism it has to be a seriously much kinder method it can’t be based on punishing yourself for your mistakes it’s not going to do you any good you have to be sooooo nice and kind to yourself that you feel STUPID!!!!You have to. you have to submit to self-compassion its sooo scary but you have to let it speak to you it loves you so much and it wants everything that you want for yourself and it’s going to help you . Important Letters to my past self.com

[dailyclassicart]

Antonina Rzhevskaya - "Music" (1903)

[awaknmyheart]

Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker

Last October I watched Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. I wrote my thoughts about the movie and a little review in my 2025 movies post. But because you have to dig a little too deep to find it. I wanted to experiment with it for this time, by sharing it in a separate post. So here it is.

This movie unfolds slowly, like a plant you'd watch daily to see it's flowers bloom. It takes it's time to draw you in, to show it's story. The essential conversation and the main questions asked in the room do arrive late into the story. But that seems to really be the aim of the movie to draw each moment slowly out. Yes, this film couldn't survive if it where made today, simply because of the slim attention span that the modern audience would hold.

We seem to have really lost that art of a slower pace, and our appreciation for it. Not only in mainstream modern media but rather, in our daily lives we seem to have lost this too.

Reflecting, I am that impatient audience member who couldn't appreciate it because I wished for those questions to arrive sooner.

I really enjoyed the use of sepia scenes in contrast to the colored ones, relating to the story and the presence of the Zone. This most memorably happened when Stalker wishes for the Zone to be with his family, and the dog follows him to become part of his family and home. The dog clearly serves as the physical manifestation of the Zone, a metaphor. To me, the most interesting moment of colorswitching happens when they are drifting to sleep. Is the Zone really representing our consciousness? Is it revealing what is unconscious while being in the Zone, all while the life we live outside of it had been lived unconsciously for all that time?

As always I really enjoy it when a film ends with a open ending, and gifts me some fruit to think and ponder on. So even though the overall time pressure didn't suit my liking at times, and it's not really a movie I'd recommend. I did really enjoy the use of color in scenes, the photo graphical compositions, the story and the overall vibe. I do think that it requires a rewatch for me if I'd ever want to analyze this further. Like, trying to unravel if the reactionary views of the professor and the writer on the Zone could be a similar to their representative reaction to Christianity, religion or faith as a whole.

[awaknmyheart]

Put your hands inside my pocket, if it's not you I don't want it

[lamignonette]

[allsadnshit]

Accepting that maybe even the best version of you would be hated by some people can really set you free like life doesn't have to be making other people comfortable or being the most lovable and fair person in the universe like actually the satisfaction you seek is beyond judgment and lies within your own interests and desires fr

[awaknmyheart]

I freaking love Gilmore girls

[g-selle-b]

Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2002

[awaknmyheart]

bringing this video back to y'all to brighten your day

[awaknmyheart]

[awaknmyheart]

what happens to someone who constantly is reminded to be the bigger person, to not react, to not act ugly even when the person around them is, what if you are constantly surrounded by the absurd?

[timotaychalamet]

A Short Film About Love (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski

[awaknmyheart]

kind words that sound genuine but perhaps mean so little when they are clearly unwilling to be responsible for what they've done

[flowerytale]

Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

[mothprincess]

don’t forget that it’s your life. it’s not school’s life, it’s not work’s life, it’s not your family or your partner’s life—it’s perpetually your life, for better or worse. what do you want from this life? forget happy, what motivates you to live? why are you here?

[awaknmyheart]

I just wish I got to have a normal conversation with this person. Casually, a simple conversation about the day, simple communication. It's not at all something too big to ask for. I just want to be seen. I just wanted for them to be someone I could open up to, and for years now, this has not been the case. To be listened to and to be seen is just such a basic need. I don't deserve this and I wish it was different

[tordenvejr]

art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you