c'est la vie, et cetera

a particular brand of optimism

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Joy Sullivan, from "Long Division", Instructions for Traveling West

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House & Garden’s Best in Decoration, 1987

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Berlin, ph by andreparis.

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Dawn by booimpact, January 2008.

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[mjalti]

Hey Mjalti <3 Im going through a break up too and as I was going through your asks I couldn’t help but admire the way you answered. I’d like to ask how do you fight the thoughts that you might never find romantic love again, if you happen to have those. Because as much as I try I can’t help but think that noone will ever love me again, and I’ll never love anyone like that too.

Sending tons of love and good thoughts ur way

I think of romantic Love like a color chart; you have a certain type, a favorite "color" and in that color, there are many hues. Each person is their own hue. You may not be able to find the same hue you let go of--but neither will they. You will find someone of the same "color" family though, a hue closer to your intensity and desire.

Why do you think of yourself as unlovable? Are you not a good person? Do you not love deeply? Do you treat your partners well?

Your life, like mine, is so incredibly vivid already that romantic love only ADDS to it, but does not encompass it. A good partner is a wonderful thing to have but it is also not by far the thing that will break you in this life.

Buy 2 dozen blood red roses and put them on your living room table, play Feelin Good by Avicii, bake some olive bread & make a dip of olive oil & feta cheese & herbs & spices. Make romance feel at home with you, even without an external recipient.

You are the creator in this story, the author. What do you want your next page to say?

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poem of the End: V (tr. by Elaine Feinstein)

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by Japanese photographer Hayato Miura

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by Japanese photographer Hayato Miura

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Do Ho Suh

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By Misawa Hiroshi

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"Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against losing control - of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”

Elana Dykewomon, "Notes for a Magazine," Sinister Wisdom #36 (Winter 1988/89).

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Aaron Angell

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Max Radford, A Meadow by the Window, flat of Heike Mülhaus, Berlin, 2007