fall in love with someone who wants you, who waits for you. who understands you even in the madness, someone who helps you, and guides you, someone who is your support, and your hope. fall in love with someone who talks with you after a fight. fall in love with someone who misses you and wants to be with you. do not fall in love only with a body or a face or with the idea of being in love
i think an important part of overcoming trauma is realizing that you really didnt deserve it… for years i thought i must have done something to deserve what i went through but really? fuck that. i didnt. you didnt do anything wrong, the universe doesnt hate you, and it really could have happened to anyone. you just happened to be put in a bad situation and you couldnt possibly have deserved anything that happened to you. its so easy to blame yourself but you have to let go of that in order to recover
another thing is to stop doubting the severity of what you went through. so what if someone out there has it worse? that doesnt mean what you went through wasnt bad. if it hurt you, it hurt you and you deserve happiness and a chance to recover
[Drawing of a brown capybara saying “I love you and I’m sorry things are tough right now. You deserve better and if there’s anything I can do to help, I’m here.” in a yellow speech bubble on a blue background.]
Couples that tolerate each other’s endless endless rambling are a powerful and beautiful force for good
me, excitedly: so by Le Chatelier’s principle, no reaction ever truly ‘stops,’ it just reaches a point where it proceeds in both directions at the same rate for a net change of zero, which
my gf, knowing she’ll get to talk about glass-blowing techniques next: mhm, I see, interesting