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maybe-itsforthebest · 11 hours

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maybe-itsforthebest · 15 hours

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have i finally lost my marbles or do i just need A Change Of Scenery

#if i have to spend one more minute in these Four Walls #i will peel my skin off #except i will in fact be living and working here for the foreseeable future #YAY :D !#thoughts #journal #text

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maybe-itsforthebest · 4 days

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i want to love. i want to cook dinner for someone, my fork stalling halfway to my mouth while i watch them take their first bite. i want to know when they need to laugh, to be held, to be heard, to be reassured. i want to listen and listen and listen and not speak a word about myself for hours, just to get to know the inner workings of someone's soul. i want to smooth my hands over someone, to offer what earthly relief i can. i want to kiss someone on the forehead and lay my hand on their cheek, so they do not only feel my touch when it has its own motivations. i want to open myself to someone, to make them understand they are trusted and treasured.

i so rarely dream of being loved.

only of loving.

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maybe-itsforthebest · 4 days

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- j (x), i have time

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maybe-itsforthebest · 4 days

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Forugh Farrokhzad, from a letter to Ebrahim Golestan featured in “Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad,” tr. by Sholeh Wolpé.

#<3 #RAAAHHH #ouch

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maybe-itsforthebest · 4 days

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— Louise Glück, from “The Untrustworthy Speaker.”

#<3 #underlining “i never see myself”

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maybe-itsforthebest · 6 days

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James baldwin’s the artists struggle for identity. Btw.

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maybe-itsforthebest · 7 days

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“One of the most solid pieces of writing advice I know is in fact intended for dancers – you can find it in the choreographer Martha Graham’s biography. But it relaxes me in front of my laptop the same way I imagine it might induce a young dancer to breathe deeply and wiggle their fingers and toes. Graham writes: ‘There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.’”

— Zadie Smith (via campaignagainstcliche)

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maybe-itsforthebest · 8 days

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maybe-itsforthebest · 9 days

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do it scared do it stupid do it badly whatever it is that's worth doing, that's worth anything at all, we do it. be it scared be it stupid be it badly. the sincerity remains the same.

#<3 #eternally good advice #wish i followed it more

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maybe-itsforthebest · 9 days

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#<3

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maybe-itsforthebest · 10 days

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maybe-itsforthebest · 10 days

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#my journal is my safe space #to be a melodramatic pretentious silly little guy #picture me writing by an open window in a puffy white shirt and a silly little smirk #only the stuff i can stomach gets posted #just talkin

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maybe-itsforthebest · 10 days

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“I’m a hater.” No, you’re a snob. You have a perceived level of superiority in your opinion on things you’ve seen sound bites of on Twitter. You fail to engage sincerely with anything. You write one liners on letterbox’d for movies you decided you disliked before you watched and you’re waiting for an audience you hope exists to make you viral for a joke that isn’t funny because you didn’t try to truly engage with the content to begin with. And even if whatever you deem below you is bad, critique comes from a place of love for the medium or thing it is attempting. You didn’t have that to begin with, so what could you possibly have besides a shallow joke and proof you lack media literacy? You’re utterly bankrupt, worse than the thing you’re trying desperately to dunk on. At least it was trying, in earnest, to do something. You won’t even attempt joy.

#<3 #this this this #a million times this #reminds me of fare well by hozier #critic hoping to be remembered wouldn't fare well

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