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“How do you deal with it all? It’s like my world keeps crashing down anytime I try to pick myself up.”

I wish I could give you advice that’d take it all away, but that’s just not possible 😕 I can, however, tell you what I wish someone told me..

1. You’ll have good days, and you’ll have bad days. You’ll go weeks feeling like you’ve moved passed it all, and then one random nightmare will send you straight back to your old habits. But that’s okay. Don’t lose hope. You aren’t broken, you’re healing. And that process is different for everyone.

2. Talk to your family about it. And if you aren’t comfortable telling your family (like I was/still am), then tell your friends. Its never a good idea to keep those things to yourself. They eat you alive and make you feel isolated from the world. I cannot tell you how amazing it feels, knowing what happened to me isn’t something I need to hide or be ashamed of. And on that note - People won’t judge you for what happened. I’ve been shown nothing but compassion and sympathy from those I’ve shared my experiences with. I know it’s hard to believe, but trust me on this one.

3. Lastly, you can still love yourself. Continue to treat yourself right. Take showers. Eat well. Lay in the sun. Exercise. Do things you enjoy, even if you think you don’t deserve it. It’s a strange mindset to get yourself out of. Thinking you don’t deserve to be happy. But you do, even more so than before.

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“Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us”

— (via deceptivelips)

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Shin Saimdang, Picture of Insects and Grass No. 2, 16th century

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Pale Blue Dot

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

– Carl Sagan