#randomflurriez

[crow-child]

I really can't stop comparing myself to this other girl and I feel really shitty. I don't know what to do.

So what you have to realize is that most humans hide their flaws really well. This other girl might seem like she’s better than you but the truth is that probably 98% of humans are some level of terrible and you’re a lot better than a lot of other people because some people, say, are murderers. See! You’re doing amazing.

but for real, you’re your own person and Deserve to be loved and respected by your own merit, and the only thing you can do to “improve” beyond your normal state of badassery is choose to let your desire to be a good human motivate you towards working hard on things you like, or learning all the things you can, or getting healthy and badass and able to fight things.

and /I/ love you no matter who you are. So there.

[crow-child]

[crow-child]

My Own Prayer

low bellied rough ladies

protect them

shallow boned birds with dark eyes

shelter them

spindly shes with eyes that glitter

send them to resting

wrap them in wide arms, round hips

feel their hunger, their caverns of aching

cleanse, fill, soothe,

i hear their screaming when i close my eyes

please, mothers

please--

protect them

-E.L.M.

[crow-child]

WEIRD COUPLE OF DAYS FOR ANXIETY AND NOW I NEED TO WRITE AN ESSAY AND I’VE GOT TO GET UP EARLY 

basically ew

[crow-child]

you are literally the epitome of beauty.\.

well howdy there anon i am painfully single and a ball of compressed stress

so

hmu

[crow-child]

Do you ever or have you ever compared yourself to other people and start to not feel great about yourself? Past lovers/exs new interest and such? I do this all the time and I can't stop and I feel awful about myself because I can't see myself on their level and I don't think highly of myself anyway tbh.

HI YES ALWAYS

This for me is a component of my social anxiety; is feeling like I don’t measure up to the people around me who I feel like are more put together/confident/fit/beautiful/talented what have you. This is extremely unhealthy mental behavior, and I’m seeing someone (a therapist lady who’s the bomb) who’s helping me deal with that (and my plethora of additional issues lol). I would recommend seeing someone if your internal monologue is frequently or always negative. Even talking through what you’re telling yourself with someone who has an outside perspective can be freeing and extremely helpful. 

I’m also a fairly jealous person by nature, by which I mean when I still care about someone I get pretty much personally offended by the “better replacement” of me which IS NOT WHAT A NEW PARTNER FOR YOUR EX IS but that’s always how the tiny snarky part of my brain talks. So I 100% hear you, but know that you deserve to have a positive internal voice and you are worth self-love. Positivity and mental well being is a process, not a destination.

[crow-child]

(EmmaMcGlashen) hey fam i did a song thing again

[crow-child]

Do you draw or paint? Any tips for an aspiring artist?

I don’t have an eye for color, but I like doodling! I would say the best tips for drawing are to practice as often as possible and to try to draw what /is/ not what you think the line is /supposed/ to look like.

Sorry I’m not very useful with visual art! I’m only beginning to work on it myself :) but BEST OF LUCK we can always always always use more beauty in the world!