#strentgh

[poetrybyonur]

When you're always the one they come to, when you're always the one people need, when you're always being the pillar, the strong one, sometimes it feels so peaceful and soothing to have someone else be your strength.

A poem I wrote for a dear friend that I’ve redone.

[brattydaddy333]

A Letter You May Never Read

Hey,

so I’m just gonna give you your space fr. I don’t really know what I did to make you feel like you need to treat me the way you have been for the past few months. The months leading up to our separation and the month after. I was vulnerable with you and admitted my insecurities to you. I listened to you and put in effort to be a supportive partner to you; to the best of my abilities. And you were happy. And you were glowing. And your ego soared in my presence. We all noticed. All I wanted from you was the same attentive care I poured into your vessel. To be filled with your love so I, too, could glow…

But you couldn’t do that for me. Or wouldn’t do that for me-

I don’t know why you feel the need to take so much s

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e from me.

To put so much d i s t a n c e between us.

So much between us.

So much ache between us.

I don’t wonder when it faded.

I felt it fade-

Still feel it fading.

And as much as I tended the fire.

Two hands can’t compare to four.

One heart can’t beat for two.

So because I don’t feel loved…

I’ll run away. And you’ll let me be. You’ll just avoid me.

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I don’t deserve to be treated so carelessly.

If I know one thing; it’s my worth.

[1luaamor]

Maybe right now your journey isn’t about LOVE.

Maybe right now your journey is about YOU.

Maybe this is the season you are being challenged to be your own savior, to be your own safe place. Maybe right now you are being reminded — that the people who walked away were only ever leading you back to yourself, were only ever leading you here.

And here, you are okay on your own.

Here, you are rebuilding.

Here, you are adapting, and mending, and reclaiming all of the pieces you let them walk away with.

Here, you are being kinder to your soul, you are giving yourself the same kind of love you have always given to others.

Here, you are not rushing your heart, you are not depending on another human being to fix it. Instead, here, you are doing that on your own.

Here, you are healing.

~ Bianca Sparacino

✨🙌🏽💫

[papyjr13]

Amphibia : The Three Temples

Here is an old drawing back from 2022. It was one of my big project at the time. Truly an opportunity to play with different lightning and with an angle I didn't use that much.

Hope you'll like it

[applebrooklyn]

One day, when I am strong enough, I shall grasp your face. Run my fingers on the crinkles by your eyes. Rub the wrinkles between your brows.

One day, when I am strong enough, I shall hold your hand. Tell you it is okay to weep. Embrace you when you crumble in front of my eyes. One day, when I am strong enough. One day.

applebrooklyn©

[elizabethanpoetryaddict]

WOMEN REPRESENTATION IN VATANIM SENSIN

I recently finished watching the Turkish series Vatanim Sensin (or Wounded Love). I found very interesting the representation of female characters in this show, especially how they chose to represent a variety of strong women, all strong in different ways. Whether they were on the "good side" or the "bad side", eventually they all showed strength and power: Yildiz, Hilal, Havva, Veronica, Eftelya, Hasibe, Efsun, Emine, Kara Fatma, Seher, Lucy Adams, Halide Edip and many others. However, now I'd like to focus on the character of Azize. Azize won my heart. She always showed such courage and strength of character that made me admire her ever more so as the show went on. She raised three children on her own and took care of her old mother-in-law while working to earn the money to survive. She never asked for permission to do what she believed to be right and no one could stand in her way or make her change her mind when she was already set on something. Her high sense of morals pushed her to help whoever she could even at the risk of her own safety. She endured an awful lot of pain, but that never broke her. She always found a way to rise again from the ashes and prove the world that "women can do everything if they want to". Nevertheless, I would minimize too much the complexity of her character if I reduced everything to a matter of women empowerment: she was a woman deeply in love with her husband, loyal and protective towards her country and her friends, fierce when it came to protecting her children. She never took into consideration coming to compromises with her morality and always firmly believed in the necessity of showing kindness and understanding. In her confrontations with men of power, she never backed off, never lost ground. She showed confidence and pride, which often led those hostile characters to form a sort of reluctant admiration and respect toward her (General Vasili, General Filipos, Charles Hamilton...). The confidence and inspiration her character gave me personally are unbelievable, maybe because I saw a bit of my mother in her, or maybe it was just that I yearn to become as strong and independent. The lesson she taught me is that women with strong personalities and principles may not always have an easy life, but in the end, however it turns out, they will regret nothing because they always stayed true to themselves. I don't know who needs to read this but we are all strong and strength shows in different ways, just stay true to yourself and to your conscience and you'll never have to regret anything.

[once-upon-an-idiom]

I love wildflowers, they’re so strong and resilient!

I’ve literally seen a patch of them get mistakenly run over by a lawnmower, and they just piped right back up next spring! It’s not about how many times you fall down, but how many times you get back up!

[jolvika]

She may look fragile, but she cuts like broken glass