Learning to Let Go

hi :) I’m Alyssa, 27 years old, USA. This blog is a hot mess, but it's my hot mess. Send me shrimp alfredo and we can be friends. Social worker by day, fangirl by night 🫶

[utilitycaster]

So sorry you have brainrot; mine is growing new leaves, roots, et cetera

[ritikajyala]

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

[prophecygirlsource]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Chosen (7.22)

                                 ‘ You’re not the one and only Chosen anymore.’

[erzvolnes]

certain kind of tragedy i think in still following your childhood best friends online. like once upon a time you knew me better than anyone. i thought we would be friends forever. now we are Adults and Different and even despite that I so badly wish we could still Talk like we were 13. i dont know who you are. I miss you.

[sapphicyearningbot]

omg we are both fucked in the head wanna make out

[sailermoon]

turns out I’ll always carry my 15 year old self. silly me

[sailermoon]

this isn’t about hating her this is about recognizing there will always be a small part of me a little hurt and a little scared and it’s my job to care for that part in the way she needed at the time

[sailermoon]

[kosmogrl]

good morning guys. the horrors persist, the cold insists and so do we

[moonlitmourningjournal]

[scribefindegil]

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

[hollowboobtheory]

everything should cost one dollar, ten dollars, or one hundred dollars. a drinky drink is one dollar. a t shirt is ten dollars. rent is one hundred. i might be convinced to allow one thousand dollars for some very big purchases like a house. i get it, you're running a business. i'm not unreasonable.

[birdsareblooming]

sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

[birdsareblooming]

holy shit is that kate bush

[were--ralph]

official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate

[nickmpreg]

don’t kill yourself because the internet is going to be really funny when Elon gets assassinated

[nickmpreg]

[weirdcultstuff]

To myself, raised in an environment that glorified and romanticized restriction and suffering:

There is no victory in skipping dinner, or lunch, or breakfast, or morning coffee, or dessert.

There is no victory in refusing heaters and air conditioners and fans and heated blankets.

There is no victory in denying yourself sleep, or showers, or movement, or water, or a comfortable bed, or taking the elevator vs. the stairs.

There is no victory in refusing pain meds and heating pads and ice packs and medical help.

There is no victory in punishing yourself needlessly, in telling yourself that this pain you feel is because you are bad to the core and deserve it.

There is no victory in choking back your laughter and your tears, to keep an imagined equilibrium of safety that is really just a dry, cracked, empty, endless emotional desert.

You are here. You are in this body, and this body is yours. You deserve good things. You are alive, and that is messy and loud, and messy and loud are okay.

It’s okay to live abundantly. It’s okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to indulge. This paralysis of self-punishment, self-restriction, self-loathing is not healthy or good for you.

[moldavite-moved]

to be honest

[femgineerasolution]

@cindernet-explorer I'm stealing your tags because 100% yes

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image IDs: Image #1: Tweet from @/ Vloids reading: haven't been ugly since i stopped calling myself ugly

Image #2: Tumblr tags reading: #i wasnt ugly then either #i was just wrong /End ID]

[ladyxgaga]

Lady Gaga winning Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Die With A Smile” at the 67th GRAMMY Awards

[ladyxgaga]

Lady Gaga winning Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Die With A Smile” at the 67th GRAMMY Awards