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Nearly two decades on this earth and the only time I felt love, it brought pain so intolerable that I bid to myself that I would find love in anything other than human connection. Yet, age and time has aided in my healing and now I'm filled to the brim with an inconceivable amount of love. Part of me wants to experience love in the ways that I once felt it, even if the pain will leave injury too deep to heal. Yet, now that I am older, I know that love isn't supposed to hurt more than it is suppose to heal. And my mind no longer consists of spiral steps and puzzles. Two decades on this earth and I have finally begun to understand my emotions.. I have molded myself into someone who is able to give and receive love. I have become someone who is able to become vulnerable without opening airways for toxicity to seep in. Two decades and I am ready to immerse myself in someone. To uplift someone in the ways that I wish people would have for me, to love in the way that I have never been, and to groom and harvest roots that grow for years. Now that I am older, now that I have healed from the first, I bid to myself that I will unapologetically love. I will do it with everything in me. I will do it right, I will love raw and whole.
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Nov 26, 2017
Nov 26, 2017 at 10:03 PM UTC
Two decades
if I could meet the younger version of myself I would spend the day doing nothing more than talking to her. I would ask her what her view on life is. I would read her: is she naive? strong-willed? if I could meet the younger version of myself I would ask her if she believes in love. I would ask her if there is any underlying pain that eats away at her when no one is around. If I could meet the younger version of myself I would want to know if she's different. and if so? how different. I would do nothing more than learn about her and try to remember what it was like to be her.
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Jun 13, 2016
Jun 13, 2016 at 12:53 AM UTC
if I could speak to the younger version of myself
*I am not one to romanticize pain and sadness but the minute sorrow arrives at my doorstep, I welcome him in with open arms. I am not one to continuously arise in the morning with a heavy heart nor do I enjoy walking around with a weight on my shoulders, but I still find myself becoming less motivated to discover the green grass on the other side. I desire joy far more than one would expect, but I still live day to day merely surviving. I do not romanticize pain and sadness, but the minute sorrow seeps into the crevices of my life, I make no efforts to extinguish it.*
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Jun 13, 2016
Jun 13, 2016 at 12:19 AM UTC
a journey to understanding myself pt.1
imagine, someone could look at you and for a split second imagine an entire life with you. imagine, someone you know could love you in a way that is so pure, selfless, and youthful that it is almost too good to be true. imagine, you might be the last thought in someone's mind at night. how honorable it would be to be someone's thought. to be someone's own version of perfection. most of us have someone who looks at us in these ways and most of us don't even know.
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Jun 10, 2016
Jun 10, 2016 at 11:41 PM UTC
imagine
I've had trouble lately, confronting reality. I have no idea how things are meant to work out. I guess that is the beauty of life, sometimes you aren't meant to know or understand how everything will work out in the end- it just does. so I'm hoping this is one of those situations. one where I may be in an unbelievable amount of stress, but everything will work out. I hope that before I know it, I'll be wondering why I even stressed at all. I'll wonder why I worry. And I'll understand why everything panned out the way it did, and I'll appreciate how things turn out. I hope that through this, I will learn how to confront reality.
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Jun 10, 2016
Jun 10, 2016 at 11:02 PM UTC
I hope
I am so intrigued by you.
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 6:19 PM UTC
five word letter to u
every few months, I try proving myself wrong. I lay my eyes on someone and make them my center thought. this time, you are the lucky one. you are the one who I look for, for lasting conversation. you are the laugh that I am so deeply wanting to hear for the rest of my days. your touch is the one that I still feel lingering on my skin even after you have gone. deep down, I hope that in the process of trying to prove myself wrong, that you would prove that what we have is real... that it is right. I don't believe in love but I am undeniably in love with the thought of being in love. so for a few months, you'll be my lucky one. you'll be the one I spend my mornings thinking of and my nights wishing to be by your side. and maybe, I will prove myself wrong. maybe I won't have to continue finding a new person every few months, to find chemistry with. maybe the only person I lay eyes on for the rest of time, is you. perhaps we can prove me wrong.
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 12:47 AM UTC
proving myself wrong
my temptations fall through every time you draw near. at night, my thoughts find me as i have become restless- thinking of you equates to temptations that i convince myself are more than fictional and self-made desires. maybe one day my temptations won't fall through when you draw near. maybe when i see your smile, i will act on my urges. maybe i won't be fearful, instead i will be fearless. and when that day comes, my nights will be full with rest and dreams of us as a result of acting out of self-made desires.
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 12:39 AM UTC
urges
I used to be convinced that we were made for one person. I used to believe that one love was so powerful that it would keep someone investing more and more of their heart until there was nothing left to give. But now, after 18 years of life I see that love is not constricted to one person. One heart can be made for more than one person. In the past four years, love has found me in three different vessels. Three different vessels have taken and given me nameless things that I would not have been given from anyone else. So now I wonder, how much of my heart will be left once I meet the love meant for the rest of time? Or will I actually meet a long lasting love or continue to find love in different people? How many vessels are my heart made for?
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 12:23 AM UTC
Vessels
i am infamous for loving the wrong people. and if that in itself doesn't sum me up, i am not sure what does.
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 12:13 AM UTC
infamous