Nothing Matters (and I Love Like Hell Anyway)
You there. Yeah, you, floating somewhere between hope and heaviness. Maybe in your bed, or the bathtub. Maybe mid-breakdown with eyeliner running like war paint or maybe sipping tea pretending today didnāt almost swallow you whole.
I see you. I feel you. This oneās for us.
I call myself an optimistic nihilist like itās a soft rebellion. A tender riot. A wink at the abyss. I know thereās no grand meaning out there, no cosmic judge waiting to score me on how gracefully I suffered. Thereās just space. Time. Dust. The sound of my own heartbeat as I try to stitch purpose into a world that doesnāt hand any out.
And you know what? I love that.
I take that emptiness and I fill it with kisses and chaos and color and kindness. I fuck up. I start over. I say āthis hurtsā out loud. I say āI love youā even louder. I write like itāll save someone, and sometimes, it fucking does.
I know Iām not everyoneās cup of tea. Iām probably more like a haunted goblet of glittery meadāsweet but intense, strange but warm, and not to be chugged without a little warning. I am soft, yesābut not fragile. I am stitched together with overthinking and ocean tides, I say āsorryā too much and still bite when I need to. I care deeply and chaotically. I cry watching sunsets and I will rip apart anyone who hurts someone I love.
I choose to love people like art exhibitsāgently, curiously, reverently. And when I love, I love. There is no halfway in me. There never was.
But donāt mistake that for naivety. I know people leave. I know grief like the back of my hand. I know what itās like to hold someoneās ghost in my lungs and still try to sing. Iāve slept beside absences. Iāve buried versions of myself so many times I shouldāve earned a shovel by now. And stillā¦
Not because I think the universe will reward me.
But because I want to see what happens next.
Because nothing matters, so I get to decide what does.
And I decide that you matter.
Your softness. Your mess. Your contradictions.
I donāt care if your coping mechanisms are strange, if you cry in parking lots, or if healing looks like a goddamn hurricane. If youāre still here, still trying, still breathing with intentāthatās enough. Thatās more than enough.
So hereās your little ritual for the days when the void is louder than your joy:
ā Light a candle for no reason.
ā Write down three things you did today instead of everything you didnāt.
ā Put your hand on your chest and whisper, āThis heartbeat means I still get to try.ā
ā Say āI matterā even if it feels like a lie.
And if no oneās said it to you lately, let me scream it softly into your bones:
I am a constellation of chaos and calm.
I am not small just because I hurt.
I exist without needing to earn it.
The universe might not give a fuckābut I do.
And I will always make that louder than the silence.
So dance barefoot on your kitchen floor.
Text someone first even if it scares you.
Eat the food. Wear the thing. Feel the feeling.
Cry, scream, laugh, heal, spiral, mendādo it all, baby. Do it unapologetically.
If weāre all just atoms bumping around in a cosmic accident, then I want my atoms to leave glitter trails and bite marks and love notes behind. I want my pain to make someone else feel less alone. I want my softness to be louder than the entropy.
So from one stardust soul to another:
Make art. Make mess. Make meaning.
even if the world ends tomorrow,
With ink in my veins and fire in my lungs,
P.S. Youāre not lost. Youāre just on your way.
P.P.S. Youāre already magic. No spell is required.