Just keep breathing / and the magic will happen.

I remember finding taco bell sauce packets in a drawer of the refrigerator, and that's what I had to feed myself for and entire weekend when I was 8 years old I remember when I hid in a closet and ate bad sandwich meat at 2 a.m. when I was 14 Before she died, my mom used to

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Anger

Full circle

"I can’t undo what I have done unto myself, what I have let an appetite for love do to me." —Maya C. Popa

when i start crying because of stress, it turns into crying over my family, crying over my past mistakes, crying over losing my person, crying over the fact that they’ll leave me eventually, crying about my body, and crying about my entire life.

When Ray Bradbury said, “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds,” and “Look closely at everything. Don’t be a snob. Be joyful; writing is not a serious business—it’s a celebration,” he had it exactly right.

“losing/taking virginity” - turns sex into an object - places pressure on the decision - you don’t actually lose or take anything ? “sexual debut” - exciting - all focus is on u - suggests a musical number is involved

Major cheat code for life: Be patient with yourself when you’re trying to become someone you’ve never been. You’ll feel lost, unsure, and tempted to quit. Don't. Change feels chaotic because your old self is fighting for survival. Expect it to be a battle. But also expect to win.

Wow! Never heard anybody explain self-love this way and it's amazing

i just heard the phrase, “if you wouldn’t trust their advice, don’t trust their criticism” for the first time and i don’t think i’ve ever needed to hear anything more

This is so-

A college's campus police creates a viral video oo the "do's and don'ts" of crossing the street

If you really wanna fix things with somebody, you gotta talk about what broke it. Be real about what went wrong and let them speak on their side too. Don’t dismiss how they felt, and don’t hit them with no lazy “my bad.” A real apology owns the impact, even if you didn’t mean to