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jess Feb 2018
you
But your touch on my skin was the thing I probably missed most because after self medicating I rubbed away a tear and my finger felt like how you’d trace circles on my back and the feeling lingered on my cheek.
Remembering the warm, soft and everlasting feeling that your fingers dragged into my skin and into my hear.
Because the next time I smoked a cigarette I remembered how that afternoon your lips tasted like ash and after I asked you blew it off and then later you were traced with the smell all over your clothes because you had a few more.
Because I can’t listen to certain songs without remembering that afternoon we giggled and screamed as we jumped around my room dancing with fake guitars to ****** music videos.
Because I couldn’t lay in my own bed the same for a year the same because I remembered which side you claimed as yours the day you came into my house and I always couldn’t touch that side because I thought you’d be there and I’d only feel your presence if I were to lay there.
My bed now lays in a new location because I couldn’t shake the idea, even now I can’t.
Because I can’t go to certain places with friends because we shared our love there because I can remember the parties and dates to the park to avoid our parents and even that awkward movie we saw together because I was anxious and you thought I was pathetic so I told you I’d go and after to reach for your hand to only have you pull it away.
Because I remember when she met you with me and I couldn’t understand after all this time why she was so excited to be with me.
Because I remember how my heart sank when I heard that you’d gone to see her alone and when she became your friend and then I became a fool and you used her name after you finished spitting on mine.
Because I remember waking up and panicking because I thought you’d killed yourself the night before, you didn’t listen to me, you wouldn’t answer my calls and you broke up with me and then the next afternoon I broke down crying in class because I saw your name finally appear on my screen.
Because I remember the first time you took me to your friends party and your best-friend questioned why I wasn’t sitting on his lap and I hesitated not because I wasn’t comfortable with him i wasn’t comfortable with me, I tried my best to not sit properly.
Because every-time I step into my room I remember how you always acted in this mess of a room, laying on the floor acting the *** and the time you hid my phone and helped me look for it so you could just be with me for a bit longer.
Because I can’t forget the time you went away and once you got back we’d broke up 3 times and I couldn’t ******* see you because the night you got back I got **** drunk cause I didn’t want to lose you but you were only away for 2 weeks but couldn’t see you till the 3rd because I was grounded. I remember how we hugged meeting in the middle of the street to my house and then us racing to the field by my house and taking pictures and running around.
Because I remember how you held me while you watched my favorite movie and I thought you weren’t paying attention until the end you turned to me and said: “you know, I agree with Jim Carry because he said to Clementine when they were on the ice ‘I’m right where I want to be’ and I am”.
Now I can’t watch that movie because I cry only twice rather than at the sappy parts. I cry when I hear him say that quote and when the credits appear because that’s when you held me tightest.
— started keeping a log of things i think of you when i’m high.
-j.p.
*I don't condone doing drugs this is just my thoughts and experiences*
this is really old a lot of the stuff I've written before was about one person in particular. sorry this is rlly long but congrats if you actually kept reading till the end. - i haven't proof read or edited this one and i think i'm gonna keep it that way.
jess Feb 2018
And in that moment,
I looked into your eyes and realized that forever wasn’t an option.
Reality had struck and I was hit.
There’s never a forever.
There’s no fairytale endings, no happily ever after, nothing like that.
There’s just love. Life. And hate.
That’s it.
You’ll experience love.
You’ll experience hate.
And life, well you can either live it. Or just survive it.
-j.p.
jess Feb 2018
Why do we find ourselves to be failures if we don’t want to be what our parents expect?
Even though it’s beyond your standards of successful.
You are not a failure if you don’t reach someone else’s standards.
Even then, you are not a failure if you weren’t able to succeed in your own.
Because no matter how rich, how happy, how successful, or even how famous you may become;
There’ll always be people whispering in your ear, bringing down your confidence and telling you there’s more you could do to improve yourself.
No…
You don’t need anyone’s limits to define your own.
As long as what you do or what you’re aspiring to become or what you’re passionate about makes you happy and is good enough for you.
There is no need for improvement.
And no matter what, you are not a failure.
No matter what anyone else says.
You are good enough.
-j.p.
basically just gonna post a bunch of old stuff from tumblr lol.
jess Feb 2018
*******, and **** her too.
Cause when she came into your life.
I didn’t matter.
Maybe it was before that but I didn’t notice until then.
And then; once you left.
You taught me how to hate.
You taught me to be afraid to trust the ones you love.
I guess I should thank you.
Cause most of all.
You taught me how to deal with pain, without anyone noticing.
And how to not get hurt anymore.
So thanks….
Now I can’t let people in.
No one knows me.
And guess what.
6 ******* years of me trying to reach out to you.
And then coming back with nothing but silence.
My own blood is a complete ******* stranger to me.
So thanks…..
Now I know.
Don’t expect anything, that way you can’t get let down.
-j.p.
another one of my writings that i posted to tumblr that got a bunch of reblogs so here ya go.
jess Feb 2018
Please, never use the term “I felt pretty depressed” if you’re talking about that one time your parents wouldn’t let you go to that party.
Please never say “I’m so bipolar” just because someone made you mad and you went from being friendly to then yelling.
Please don’t say “I feel so anorexic” just because you forgot to eat a meal or you didn’t finish your dinner.
Please never, ever say “I swear you’re mentally *******”
Because there are people out there who actually do feel depressed.
And maybe it’s because they didn’t have a childhood, or they got abandoned way too many times or just the simple fact they’re actually just depressed.
Because there are people out there who go from being content one minute to just be shaking and trembling the next, and they can’t control the way they’re feeling.
Because there are people out there who struggle with anorexia. Who force themselves to drink water as meals because they hate their bodies.
Because there are people out there who can’t control the way they think, act and or feel.
Because mental illnesses are real; and they’re not jokes either.
So please, never, ever treat them like they are.
-j.p.
— Mental illnesses aren’t jokes; don’t laugh about them.
i posted this on tumblr like years ago and it got a lot of attention - maybe here it will too.
  Feb 2018 jess
Natalie Davis
i cannot fathom
the (i'd)ea
of you (go)ing away
and leav(in)g
me here,
i(s)olated ,
unable to st(an)d
by mys(e)lf.i cannot fathom
the (i'd)ea
of you (go)ing away
and leav(in)g
me here,
i(s)olated ,
unable to st(an)d
by mys(e)lf.

n.d.
  Feb 2018 jess
soyun
There is a certain Beauty in Brokenness
And Purpose in Pain.
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