TAMARA

twenty - gold coast, australia

[ritikajyala]

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

[tabathasfinsta]

this year, reduce the gap between, “I want to do the thing,” and *doing the thing*

[nycbambi]

[cheruib]

a list of simple yet beautiful things to live for:

the feeling of sunlight on your skin

the smell of pastries as you pass by a bakery

being wrapped up in a blanket with a cup of hot chocolate in your hands on a cold night

holding hands with the person you can’t imagine living without

discovering a new favorite song and listening to it on repeat

having a relaxing bath after a long exhausting day

secretly admiring a beautiful stranger you saw on the train

[goldshorty]

[daretobefashionable]

[stonelara]

[kushandwizdom]

Gotta keep reminding myself that it doesn’t matter how slow or fast I go. Forward is forward.

alexis belon

(via kushandwizdom)

[different-landscapes]

[moan-s]

[thepowerwithin]

You must find your why. That why that gets you up early in the morning. That why that has you staying up late. That why that keeps you going. If your why does not fill you up with a mixture of emotions, bringing with it both happiness and tears, laughter and anxiousness, eagerness and worries, then it is not your why. Keep searching until you find it.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin (via thepowerwithin)

[okayysophia]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Saying that banning guns would cause people to use knives and trucks is like saying we shouldn’t cure cancer because some of the survivors would die from heart disease or car accidents.

[novh]

[kushandwizdom]

Get you a man who is good for you mentally, physically and spiritually. A man who is patient, kind, compassionate, reciprocates your energy and who exposes you to genuine and unconditional love. Get you a man who acknowledges the light in you and does everything in his power to protect it while encouraging its glow. And ladies when you are blessed with a man like this, cherish him.

- Meggan Roxanne

[kushandwizdom]

Romance doesn't need to be expensive, it just needs to be sentimental.

- Meggan Roxanne

[ill-matic]