DEEPER CONVERSATION PROMPTS ft. some inspo from random shit i’ve written
“ even morsels of affection are like feasts to a starved soul. ”
“ you ever feel like…you’re a box of matches everyone keeps passing around to keep themselves warm? and some days you just wanna set fire to a forest just to watch something else burn for once. ”
“ seems like when my life was created by— shit if i know. the universe or god. whoever was building it had the blueprint upside down. something’s just wrong. ”
“ the world feels too big for me to be noticed, yet too small to hide. ”
“ it hurts. when you want to live. when you start caring about having a future again. it makes all the things you’d numbed yourself too ache again. it can be just as suffocating to want to stay on this earth as it is to want to escape it. ”
“ only clinging to positive emotions, pushing all the bad shit down, that’s not balance. it’s not any healthier than the people who hold on to their bitterness and anger. ”
“ truth is i don’t care— i should but. i don’t care if becoming one of the monsters is what it to takes to protect myself. i’d rather be something that makes people afraid than be the one terrified anymore. ”
“ i think the real monsters in the world, the real villains, are the ones who create them. ”
“ no one blames a beat dog for learning how to bite the hands that strike it. yet when humans learn how to bear their teeth we avert our gaze, criticize how they learn to survive. ”
“ i’m starting to think finding your place in the world is about making it. carving out a piece and making it yours. ”
“ i’m not afraid to love. loving is the easy part. it’s the after that always scares me. the idea of being left with all that love and nowhere to put it. ”
“ i feel hungry. like in my soul. but i don’t know what i’m starving for. how am i supposed to know what i need when i’ve never had it? it’s just hollow. ”
“ it took me a while to realize happiness wasn’t this long, consistent thing. it’s just learning to live in the small moments. appreciating the joys you find, tucking them away for later so when it’s dark again you remember what the light felt like. ”
“ i think it’s okay to be lonely sometimes. i think that’s when you learn the most about who and what you are. and who you want to be. ”
“ i knew something had to change when nightmares no longer scared me. they almost felt safer than what was there when i was awake. ”
“ i’ve never really learned to identify one emotion from another. i never got that? how some people just know what they’re feeling. it’s all just one mess inside me. i just feel. i don’t think about it. i just feel things—so strongly it’s like it takes over my entire body and soul. ”
“ to really know yourself…i think that will always be more important than whether not anyone else knows you. ‘cause there’s always going to be pieces of yourself you keep from the world. and only you can understand them. ”
“ when you fight with someone you actually, truly love. that selfless, committed kind of love? every argument might as well be like punching your own reflection. that’s how you know it’s real. when hurting them wounds you too. ”
