ericaploof

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Why the fuck did my reel i posted get 21k likes

ericaploof

Remember you are like the wind- always changing and always adapting. 
          
          I do not know who will read this, but when you do, I want you to know this. 
          
          I struggle with holding onto things that do not want to be held. I kept past versions of people in jars and dragged them with me and hurt them. I never listened, just tried to make myself relevant. Always tried to fit the bill of what others wanted from me. 
          
          My friends with different opinions and beliefs- none bad or harmful. They have different ideas of how to change the world than me. That is okay. I love them anyways. I will respect their boundaries and their beliefs and way of living life. 
          
          I have started listening more. Stories, opinions, dreams. You won't believe how much you can learn from one sentence if you only listened. 
          
          I am beginning to learn to stop worrying for the future. I will go with the flow. I will deal with adversity when it comes. Maybe I will find love, maybe I won't. Maybe I will die tomorrow, maybe I will not. Maybe I will lose someone next week, maybe I won't. 
          
          I cannot control that. So why worry? I will be okay either way. I am alive now. 
          
          I am here now. 
          
          So are you. And you're beautiful. Full of life. You're finding your way. 
          
          Accept people. Love yourself. Love others. Stand up for women and queers and poc. Stand up for the underrepresented. Stand up for you. 
          
          You got this, stranger. Just keep swimming.

ericaploof

It is sad when a character has no happy ending. When they are destined for death or a life of suffering, even if they were the most innocent. 
          
          You wish they could be saved. But they aren't. They won't be. 
          
          It's so real. Life is never kind. 
          
          I wonder if I will become that character sometimes.

ericaploof

I find comfort in the fact no one is seeing this. My other accounts are ghost towns, with lurkers. It's a mess. This account isn't full of all the cringey things I did on the others. This is a clean slate. Somewhere I can just be. Without anyone seeing.