•.°•.🌱𝕔𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕖🌱.•.°.

"The light hurt my eyes but they adjusted." 
          
          The new book I'm reading is called "Dark." A philosophical fiction (which I've learned is the ACTUAL NAME for the genre I like and I am so happy) written in 2000; the author was 25. (Kenji Jasper.)
          
          The whole thing, currently, as I'm just on the third chapter now, is about darkness. Dark skin, dark lights, dark streets, dark minds. But he adjusts. Or he will. As I also need to do. 
          
          Yesterday in group therapy, we learned one of the tenants of accepting reality through DBT. A common saying, apparently, but I don't remember hearing it before. "The road out of hell is through misery." And another one, "acceptance of reality can lead to sorrow, but great peace usually follows."
          
          The light hurt my eyes, but I adjusted. 

"A map is a two-dimensional representation with arbitrary symbols and incised lines that decide who is to be our enemy and who is to be our friend, 
          
          who deserves our love 
          
          and who deserves our hatred 
          
          and who, our sheer indifference."
          
          -Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees 

It's the strangest feeling, still loving everything you've ever truly loved....

"But it's better to fight than to be torn alive, she said. It must be fate that we were born at this time. If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter." 
          
          -Anchee Min, Red Azalea 

Apparently the tr*mp administration threatened to KIDNAP the Pope and now the Vatican says Pope Leo isn't allowed to come to the US. What in the world is this 

"My brothers, my father, my mother — they all wanted to be understood. But as soon as I truly understood them, they started to hate me for it. 
          
          To them, being known was the same as being controlled."
          
          - Hiromi Kawakami, Under The Eye Of The Big Bird

Monsta X I love you. But how dare your tickets be so expensive and so far away. Take your shirts off more. Just a suggestion. I believe in you. Thanks Hyunwoo for that. Keep up the good work 

The fact that N Korea is going to have a woman leader before the US

I'm back at the university library where I always used to write. It's been months. Even coming in, the smell reminds me of the fantasy home I've built for us in my mind ❤️

"[this planet] wasn't a unified entity that could offhandedly be identified by a name like Earth. 
          
          Having seen so much of it, I found it impossible to hold any one coherent image of the planet as a whole."
          
          -Hiromi Kawakami, Under The Eye Of The Big Bird