[glowcowboy]

ok. enough suffering now. i am seeking out delight

[mournfulroses]

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[lamignonette]

[paper-wounds]

via

[kosmogrl]

[heavensghost]

the memory hurts but does me no harm

[xoxobaphomet]

[feral-ballad]

Kapka Kassabova, from Someone Else’s Life; “Calculations”

[absoluteconceptofbeauty]

How about Other people start worrying about how I perceive them

[stufflikethathere]

Heart

[kosmogrl]

[whimsybrain]

I have gorged myself on love, and yet I starve for it more than ever. I must refuse to be frightened by my desire, I must refuse to put myself in a cage or repent. Joy is out there, joy, joy, joy, sweet like a hundred blackberries in a shining July. I will not fear the thorns and brambles; I will pluck, I will eat, I will smile. If I bleed, let me bleed. I will bleed in the sun.

[quietgirl444]

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, “Poem Written in a Cab”, Love and Other Poems

[creekfiend]

in general I find that "why did someone behave this way" is almost always answered by "behaving otherwise was too difficult and frightening for them at the time," and then you have to dig into why that is. people behave in ways that feel 1. easy for them (do not require much thought or effort) 2. accessible to them (patterns that have worked many times before) and 3. safe for them (apparently predictable outcome)

this is true even for behavior that is absolutely horrific and totally unacceptable. which can be a tough thing to accept, I think.

[theonewhopoops]

There was another discussion I saw which phrased it "What would it take for that to be me?" which I think more people should explore.

[pyritetears-deactivated20260218]

Haitian Vèvè.

[junglejim4322]

I live a very balanced life of noticing things nobody else does and not noticing the things that literally everybody notices