shimmy

somewhere between a feeling & the right words for it..

[shimmywrites]

gentle reminder that crying is actually one of the best things you can do to relieve all that tension and emotion in your brain, and not to resist the impulse because it’s ‘weak’ or ‘unnecessary’ or ‘a plea for attention.’ if you need to cry, do it, even if you don’t always know the reason. your body does.

[shimmywrites]

i don’t think people talk enough about how tender it feels to be taken care of when you’re used to being the one doing the taking care. how strange and full it is. how it almost hurts in the best way. like a muscle remembering it exists.

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i think about the strangers i’ll never see again more than i probably should. the woman on the train who laughed at something on her phone. the kid who held the door. the person crying outside a coffee shop who looked up and almost met my eyes. whole lives. whole worlds. just passing through.

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i hope you have at least one memory that’s just yours. that nobody else was there for. a perfect small moment you never had to explain or share or perform. just you and the world agreeing, quietly, that this was enough.