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i collected tiny demons from your past in a jar, away from you and your growth. tiny truths, tiny people, tiny threats, contained and guarded by loyalty.

my promise was simple. no matter the difficulties, complicated feelings, protecting you was the priority. everything else came second.

they’ll vouch for that, at least.

i still clean my teeth with the bones of people who tried to hurt you. but i’m gone and leaving behind an opened jar. my last gift to you is being the scapegoat to save your fragile reality.

meanwhilepoetry

Last year, I wasted hundreds of hours fearing what others were saying about me, hundreds of hours wondering if I was good enough, hundreds of hours putting myself down.

And then I thought about all of the art I could have made during that time instead. All of the joy that I could have had. All of the happiness I missed out on.

This year my only resolution was that I would spend less time worrying about the things I couldn’t change and more time finding the joy I missed out on last year. Maybe that in itself is what they call growth.

- Nikita Gill, Excerpts from A New Year

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“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” — John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“She remembered it was August and they say August brings bad luck. But September would arrive one day like an exit. And September was for some reason a lighter and more transparent month.”

— Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories; “In Search for a Dignity,” (via writemeanna)