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– to you.

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I have hope in who I am becoming.

I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spoken or been told because they are still teaching me. I have hope in who I am becoming.

They say it takes 756 days to run to someone you love and they also say that the only romance worth fighting for is the one with yourself, and I know by now that they say a lot of things, people talking everywhere all the time without saying a word. But if it took me all those years to learn myself, or teach myself how to look into the mirror without breaking it, I know for a fact that it was a fight worth fighting.

I stood up for my own head and so did my heart and we are coming to terms with ourselves. Shaking hands 
saying, “Let’s make this work,” for we have places to go and people to see, and we will need each other. So I have hope in who I am becoming.

It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming.

// from Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself by Charlotte Eriksson ☽

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“When I met you, flowers started growing in the darkest parts of my mind”

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'It would be the saddest thing, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did.'

- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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“But God will know the slow tread of an old couple’s love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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““I think we end up liking people because of their good traits. Sometimes we end up loving them because of their flaws.” - Michael Landsberg”

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“I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling. I’m tired of the vitriol. I’m tired of anger. I’m tired of the meanness. I’m tired of selfishness. I’m tired of how we’re doing nothing to stop it. I’m tired of how we’re encouraging it. I’m tired of the violence that’s on it’s way, that’s coming, that hasn’t happened yet. I’m tired of liars. I’m tired of sanctified liars. I’m tired of how those liars have let this happen. I’m tired of having to wonder whether they did it out of stupidity or did it on purpose. I’m tired of lying governments. I’m tired of people not caring whether they’re being lied to anymore. I’m tired of being made to feel this fearful.”

— Ali Smith, Autumn

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Some chapters of life don’t actually have an apparent ending. They just fade away silently.

It’s a strange feeling to look back at the past sometimes and see how some parts of life have simply dissolved into nothingness. And even though this poem might sound sad, I believe that being mindful of the transience of life actually helps us to feel all the preciousness and beauty of it.

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Choose kindness.

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“When someone won’t let you in, eventually you just stop knocking.”

— Ransom Riggs; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children