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26❤️ Just a gal trying to figure out her place in this lovely world. 🌸Ohana🌸 🌻sunflowers take my breathe my away.🌻 Instagram: W.Lupe.P.L

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I never stopped waiting for you to show up. Every day is another disappointment.  

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[emotional-algebra]

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

— John Irving

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If you're not following the Swann Street siege story this morning, it's incredible.

Yesterday evening, D.C. police forced a large group of peaceful protesters and demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in a tactic known as "kettling."

Kettling is a military technique to encircle people, to box them in on all sides, into a smaller and smaller and smaller space where they can't retreat or escape from. In American protests, it's often accompanied by police forces taking advantage of the fact that protesters can't retreat to inflict maximum harm with teargas, batons, and other weapons for an extended period before doing mass arrests.

It's not a dispersement technique, it's the complete opposite -- it's a technique of intense aggression, and it's controversial because it's seldom used in good faith and often results in intense prolonged violence, with the intention of also cutting everyone caught in the kettle off from medics, aid, food, water, the ability to leave, etc.

Last night, D.C. police pushed demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in an attempt to kettle them. But residents of the neighborhood had been watching, and threw open their front doors to protesters, including a first-generation Indian-American man named Rahul Dubey.

Rahul and his neighbors sheltered a hundred people or more, between them, for eight hours last night, including having teargas fired at their homes and having the police try to enter their private property several times through various methods. They were rebuked and dispelled every time.

Rahul and his neighbors orchestrated food, medical aid, and lawyers during the siege, including ensuring protesters had safe escorts this morning.

You can read the first-person accounts from the people who were trapped there:

Allison Lane: https://twitter.com/allieblablah

Meka from the 307: https://twitter.com/MekaFromThe703

And you can read Marcella Robertson's coverage on her timeline here, including Rahul's speech to media this morning: https://twitter.com/Marcella_Rob

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[lifehappenswlupe]

Dear Self,

Don’t be so hard on yourself for not doing your best. Everyone copes differently. You are not a failture because you took a few steps back. You did what you could under the circumstances that you were in. Forgive yourself and love yourself. Others can love you, but the true love comes within yourself. You are your own hero remember that.

-W.Lupe.P.L

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[hplyrikz]

I can relate to this

[stories-i-will-never-write]

“He texts me every now and again. “Just enough to keep me interested,” my friends always say. And after the hundredth time of giving my hopes up, I stare at his text, feeling myself boil over with anger. Because he could have me- but instead, he settles for the idea of owning my heart without giving his own away.”

— Just Enough

[hplyrikz]

“I remember crying over you and I don’t mean a couple of tears and I’m blue. I’m talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon.”

— The Avett Brothers, Tear Down the House (via hplyrikz)

[kushandwizdom]

“You don’t have to reconnect with hurtful people just because you’ve forgiven them.”

— Meggan Roxanne

[lifehappenswlupe]

You may believe you do, but you don’t. Half of the people I forgiven don’t even know it.

[lifehappenswlupe]

Do you ever think, and maybe if you would have made better choices your life would be better. Maybe if you didn’t break up with that one guy, you could have avoided all that heartbreak and trauma. Maybe if you would have taken that leap of faith you would have been in a happy and healthy relationship. You don’t know what life brings to you until you live it.

Do I regret my decisions, yes and no.

Would I want to change my past for a better future. Honestly, no.

Why would I want a different path. It taught me who my real friends are. It taught me how to love myself when everyone else told me I wasn’t beautiful. It’s teaching me how to be strong and beautiful. If it wasn’t for my past I wouldn’t be where I am now.

Self growth is one of the things most people avoid, but it is one of the best things you can do to yourself.

Heal and forgive. Because there’s no point in holding onto grudges. You live your life and let others live theirs.

-W.Lupe.P.L

[lifehappenswlupe]

In life you meet people who are going to be by your side forever. You also meet people who are only suppose to be there temporarily. I’ve met so many great souls and I have fallen in love with two. I’m still quite in love with the second one. But mine oh mine had time changed. I’m no longer wishing you were with here with me. I use to do things and the first person who I wanted to be see it with was you. And now, I think of you and realize that I couldn’t make you love me. I couldn’t change your mind. You had already made it up, and that was that. You left, you left when I need it you the most. And when you walked away I started to think about all the times I made time for you. How I was willing to drop my life to see you. But you know what, you left because you wanted too. You left because I was no longer a use for you. And when I started to value myself, my gosh was I stupid to ever think you would love me back. But you know what, you never did. You only used me for your ego. And I wish I could stop loving you, but you don’t choose who you love. But you chose how it affects your life and I choose myself. I choose happiness.

-W.Lupe.P.L

[i-wrotethisforme]

There’s a time to give up on relationships or “situationships,” if you will. No matter how bad you might want to, if they’re not answering you or they seem uninterested, you don’t have to push them. The harsh truth is if you think they don’t like you, you’re probably right. And people are allowed to not feel the same way about you, it just means they aren’t the right person for you and it was never going to work out. What hurts is that they realized it first. But those are the people you have to let go of because you don’t want to be with someone you have to force to like you when there’s someone out there who will think loving you is the easiest thing in the world.

[i-wrotethisforme]

There have been people I’ve been so in love with who I just needed some space from at times and vice versa. The time apart was good for us and made us love each other more in a way, and that’s still real love, it is. But then there are people I’ve met who I’ve wanted to cook dinner with every night for the rest of my life and it’s ok to want to be with that kind of person instead.