[aaaangel444]

[engulfes]

Spaghettini alla Nerano :^)

[engulfes]

2022

i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me

Lucille Clifton

[etternal]

[thereignclub-trc]

[kxng-of-bnxider]

[stuckinapril]

so eye-opening to understand that self-love and self-sufficiency are inherently different concepts. if you enjoy going to places alone, cooking alone, taking a walk by yourself, you’re self-sufficient—able to both rely on and luxuriate in your own company in instances where you’re on your own. but self-love has more to do with how compassionate you are to yourself when you make mistakes: with understanding that failure is human, that it’s unavoidable at times, and that you should be kind to yourself when it happens rather than critical of your shortcomings. this is why the whole adage that “you can’t truly be loved by someone else until you love yourself” kind of falls flat for me. finding someone else who’s emotionally secure & available has been proven to help you become more compassionate/kind/patient to yourself (self-love), even if you already know how to spend time alone (self-sufficiency). confusing these two things has led people to mistakenly believe that wanting human connection means that you can’t rely on yourself, when in reality it’s perfectly valid to want a bond that strengthens your self-esteem and encourages you to pursue life the way you want to

[the-influencer]

[stuckinapril]

life is for taking therapeutic walks and being in your own bubble and reading books in bed and drinking iced beverages and eating fruit and gaining new experiences and dozing in sunlight and finding love in everything and not letting guilt consume your life actually

[karlvsn-deactivated20240312-dea]

[gallarie]

camillelenore

[dianahastings]

[solofleur-deactivated20250905]

[karlvsn-deactivated20240312-dea]

[thehausoftay]

@jaygram

[alwaleeed]

[novivant]