To Build Castles In The Air

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau

[sparkerr12]

REMINDER TO SELF: this place is not for you. these people are not for you. he is not for you.

[inkskinned]

she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”

[theselfcarelifestyle]

Are they really not right for you or are you seeing them through the lens of your past traumas?

[lvgvcy-deactivated20260523]

do you know how much chaos It took to be this calm

[stella-lvna-deactivated20221115]

and how much violence it took to be this gentle

[siir-poesia]

“Let’s get drunk at midnight, listen to our favorite songs and kiss so much that our lips burn.”

—

[ayefckboy]

“I hope you love yourself as hard as you fought for him”

- Open letter to me

[vodkakilledtheteen]

Sometimes I want to forget about what happened and just move on. Make pretend like nothing happened. I wish I could make our memories stop tasting like old apples. Maybe erase the night we fought in your car while a stupid love song played in the background. I wish I could stop remembering your scent everywhere I go. It’s like you’re always next to me, but instead you’re elsewhere doing something else with someone else. I can’t forget about us or what we were before our reality burned like if it was a sin. Quite honestly I wish you could apologize. Go down on your knees and tell me that I’m the only person you need. But that’s a crazy thing to imagine because even though we once were something special, it’s obvious that I was the only one who saw it.

— Alexa Evangelista, the book I’ll never finish writing

[chubbymaryjane]

The idea of someone else not being able to keep their hands off my body is literally intoxicating

like sorry I just want to be desired

[sweatermuppet]

life rlly just feels like a vicious cycle of whispering to yrself "im good. im kind. i am a lover. i am. soft handed." & it returns back to you as "are you sure? are you sure? are you sure?"

[theselfcarelifestyle]

You deserve a love you don’t have to question.

[alecsgrg]

[melonmoo]

[theselfcarelifestyle]

I need you to know that your level of intelligence and finding yourself in a toxic relationship have NO CORRELATION. You are not dumb, stupid or unintelligent for falling for a toxic partner, friend or family member. You can be incredibly smart and still find yourself in this situation. You simply opened your heart and gave it a shot with someone who you only later found out was unhealthy. It is NOT YOUR FAULT or the fault of your IQ that you got trapped in their manipulative, controlling tricks.

FINDING YOURSELF IN A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT REFLECT YOUR LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE!!!

[theselfcarelifestyle]

Relationships & friendships are supposed to lift you up, not drain you of energy.

[punlovsin]

[i-wrote-you-a-poem]

grief, i’ve learned, is really just love. it’s all the love you want to give but cannot. all that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and the hollow part of your chest. grief is just love with no place to go.

-1:25am

[kristenbouchard]

babes is there anyone who isnt hanging on by the thinnest thread known to man rn or are we all just going thru it this week