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Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

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Cat ppl will be like "There's no love like a cat's love" and dog ppl will be like "there is no love like a dog's love" and they are both correct.

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There’s something so exhilarating about discipline. I don’t know why, or how, but for some reason the difficulty and intensity of staying disciplined is so titillating. The knowledge that those tiny disciplined decisions each day are leading you to something so coveted, so big and so important is truly one of a kind.

#huh

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just because it's a short film doesn't mean it's incomplete and should have a full-length movie adaptation

just because it's an amazing movie that did really well doesn't mean it needs a sequel

just because it's a well loved classic tv show doesn't mean it needs to be remade anew

let stories be exactly the length they are, they don't need to be extended and drawn out and added onto and redone until they're not good anymore. if your story is short but it works that way then it's done. you don't need to add more. knowing when to stop is so important

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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.

Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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you cannot gender me in a way that matters

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life is weird. i’ve been an adult for several years but only now that i’ve paid for this little bit of paper with my name and an ugly photo of me on can i pay again to go to another part of the world that we give a different name too.

but i can’t use that stupid paper because people won’t wear masks while living through a global pandemic

#anyway #a goal for the last... 4? years achieved

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Bruh this coffee I bought is so good I'm so fuckin alert rn I could probably do a math problem

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I just want to be surrounded by so much love in my life. And not just relationships. Love for my job, my home, the stars, the sunsets, the place I live where ever in the world that is. I want to experience love in all forms

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happy Valentine’s day

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a soulmate is a person that won’t complain about any of my music when i put my ipod on shuffle

#a soulmate will roast your music taste while dancing to all the worst songs

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allowing people to perceive you how they choose is one of the most freeing things you can give yourself

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mostly i do god knows what

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I will never forgive or forget what Donald Trump has done. And it will be a cold day in Hell before I ever vote for a Republican.

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