It’s Not “am I Good Enough To Do It?”, It’s “do I Like It Enough To Be Bad At It?”

caught in the middle - paramore

Flooded Forest

by Konsta Punkka

April - Brendon Burton

Windows of Havana, Cuba. Sam Youkilis for Holiday Magazine

when james baldwin said “you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” I felt that big, big time

i love that post thats like “never trust how you feel about your life after 9pm” that shit changed my life. every time i feel bad i look at the clock and i’m like Aha It’s 10:26 PM You Cannot Fucking Fool Me

By a thread

1. your suffering can’t end until you stop identifying with it. if your sense of self is tied up in your suffering, anyone or anything that attempts to separate you from it will become the enemy because, whether consciously or subconsciously, you will on some level believe they are trying to take away a part of who you are.

2. read the above again.

“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.”

— Francis Bacon, An Essay on Death