i'll be seeing you

the last touch of a goodbye lover the lying smile that kisses you and says i'll be seeing you and you believe it every time.

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Encounter by Czesław Miłosz tr. Czesław Miłosz

[selfcarereminder]

the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second

[ariiadnes]

like yes i will give myself to you willingly. i trust you at my most aching and vulnerable and i hope you know this ; you do. i know there's blood on your hands and not all of it is yours but please help me and hold me. i know everyone thinks you're frightening and maybe there's a part of you that thinks you're a monster, but i don't. we're intertwined in every sense and every way. we're both hurting but i think we can protect each other. i'll put my heart and body in your hands and i hope you can do the same. you're not as scary as you think you are.

[sadumbpotato]

for some reason the most romantic thing i can think of is someone saying your name. the way it’s supposed to be said. early in the morning. late at night. mouth full of food. a whisper. in sob. in laughter. stuttering. idk there’s something about it that means more to me.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Emery Allen, from Soft Human (via lunamonchtuna)

[cowpoke-by-association]

When I get older I hope I don’t become a mean bitter old person, I pray that the years of life on this earth do not sour me, I hope when I’m old I’ll be the happy old person in their convertible listening to their favorite music and wearing all of their favorite jewelry that they’ve collected over the years and happily chatting with all of the younger people. And not the mean older person who hulls themself up in their house only coming out to yell at their neighbors, and complaining about the young people these days to anyone who will listen.

[sleepinnyc]

House By The Sea by May Sarton

[fageleh]

—Jeffrey Harrison, from The Hummingbird Feeder

[tothechaos]

[suddenly very embarrassed about walking on my knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting] [realizing i know nothing about the soft animal of my body] um . does anyone know how to live a life not spent on their knees. asking for a friend.

[bananonbinary]

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

[redheadhatchet]

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

[resetium]

someone please hit me over the head with this post every day for like the next week thanks. a mention, a reblog with text, a message, something.

[blackwoolncrown]

You must understand that perfectionism isn’t striving for excellence, it’s a crippling fear of being flawed and therefore worth abandonment or punishment. It’s a kind of psychological avoidance. You’re avoiding fear and failure , not embracing the thing you want to do bc if it was about the thing you want to do you’d be fine with partial victory.

[kosmogrl]

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

[abigailkart]

May 2026

(Thank @plantanarchy for the gay cats insp)

[tropics777]

And in these next 50 years you will eat so many delicious meals, laugh so many times with so many people you love, shout and scream and sing and cry and smile so hard your face hurts. And you will see such beautiful sunsets and feel fresh cold air on your face and feel warm and safe wrapped up in your favourite winter coat.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I wrap this blessing around you like a shroud, so that no ill can find you, and every warmth is held close

[succubusboyfriend]

are you “adaptable” or are you just willing to subject yourself to existing in low key background-level ambient misery

[miiilowo]

whenever i get worried about being judged i just gotta remind myself that most people genuinely just arent mean. some people really do suck but i think 98% of the human population is a lot kinder than your anxiety would let you believe

[miiilowo]

it's easy to lose sight of when youre online but all the dickheads are just pushed forward by algorithms. theyre an exception that are being way overrepresented. most people have sense and logic and are kind and normal and well adjusted in the real world

[notabled-noodle]

learning to stop hating yourself isn’t something that happens overnight.

it’s a series of negotiations you make with yourself over your whole life. it’s making one less self-deprecating joke. it’s looking at yourself in the mirror with a little more generosity. it’s forgiving yourself for that little mistake.

it’s not one thing and then you’re good. it’s many small choices you can make that slowly make your brain and body a little less uncomfortable to live with

[fudamnshi]

”time heals all wounds” WRONG. it merely allows for infection.. it is Too late for me