nobody’s baby, everybody’s girl

muslim, 24, esfp hopeless romantic, hopeless romanticist.

[scorpionlafemme]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[stuckinapril]

I could get over anything as long as I have something new to be obsessed with

[stuckinapril]

girls when they don’t have a new obsession that helps them dissociate from their problems and they’re actually forced to face their thoughts

[funeral]

Daphne Simeon & Jeffrey Abugel, Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self

[black-tourmaline]

““It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…””

— Aldous Huxley, Island 

[chloeinletters]

To love life even when you have no stomach for it as they say!

[heartcountry]

take a flight. become half daughter. fall in something that is like love but decidedly not. change your mind. change your friends. wait for the 17 year old version of yourself to come back to life. keep waiting. throw her a funeral. keep the guestlist short. only invite the dead. ruin your own birthday. keep them at a distance. keep the pictures under the bed. travel and arrive at the truth that you’re somewhere even you can’t find. sit in the backseat of the car like you did when you were younger. look for the familiar trees. they are still alive somewhere. it’s you who arrived in the wrong place.

[lifeinpoetry]

Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me

— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole

[septemberkisses]

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

[mjalti]

What’s meant for me will always find it’s way to me. I love being the prize. I am the source of boundless joy & I deserve everything I desire.

[gnossienne]

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

[kuutamosonaatti]

Shira Barzilay, A Crazy Night in the Museum, 2022

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

[slfcare]

lower barriers for yourself by no longer being so careful that you’re only willing to accept success. stumble your way through, take wrong turns, try something just for the sake of it, forget about the end result for just a minute. you can plan every second of your life, but the spontaneous and unintentional moments often help you find perspectives and adventures you’ve been missing. maybe you’ll stop being bored with reality when you stop tightening your grip around everything that happens and let yourself be surprised.

[pluviophile-92-deactivated20230]

[allmymetaphors]

“The desire to change is not enough. I must find a new way to be.”

[iheartliquor]