#things to internalize

[blackbird-brewster]

i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you i left because the longer i stayed the less i loved myself

rupi kaur

[blackbird-brewster]

i know it's hard

believe me

i know it feels like

tomorrow will never come

and today will be the most

difficult day to get through

but i swear you will get through

the hurt will pass

as it always does

if you give it time and

let it so let it

go

slowly

like a broken promise

let it go

- rupi kaur

[blackbird-brewster]

when you are broken and he has left you do not question whether you were enough the problem was you were so enough he was not able to carry it

rupi kaur

[blackbird-brewster]

NOTHING GOOD HAPPENS AFTER MIDNIGHT

[blackbird-brewster]

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

INVICTUS, William Ernest Henley

[blackbird-brewster]

[blackbird-brewster]

I did something brave. So why do I feel so smol?

[blackbird-brewster]

I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost… I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in the same place. But, it isn’t my fault. It still takes me a long time to get out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in. It’s a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. I walk down another street.

Portia Nelson