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❝ one thing i have learnt this year is to live and live in the moment. life is tough, life is overwhelming and life is a struggle. a struggle to hold on. a constant battle of choosing between what it is and what it should be. this year, you found yourself in situations you never could've possibly imagined yourself to be in. you looked for yourself in everywhere you went and everyone you met. you thrived, you survived, you tried - even if barely. for the year, days, life to come, live. live in the moment. stay. breathe. it gets better. ❞

❝ you are here for a reason. i know that sometimes it doesn't feel that way. i know that sometimes life can be a difficult thing to navigate. it can break you down and challenge you in ways you never thought it would but i also know that you have the potential to do incredible things in this world. you have the capacity to overcome whatever it is that is hurting you or confusing you or making you doubt yourself. i need you to believe in that. believe, with reckless abandon, that you are meant to be here. trust in yourself - even if you haven't figured out what inspires you deeply, even if you haven't discovered your purpose, even if you're moving forward in the simplest, smallest of ways. just keep going. wake up each morning and be gentle with yourself. do the work. feel whatever it is that you need to feel. tuck beautiful memories into your chest for safekeeping, revisit them whenever things get too tough. remind yourself of the art you want to create, of the things you wish to write, of the places you want to visit, of the people you have yet to meet. no matter what, just continue to remind yourself that you are going to make it. ❞

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❝ when we're in pain, people are too quick to say, 'get over it', 'move on', 'its not that bad' but we don't get over grief by denying it. we have to feel it, we have to give it it's due. we have to dive down to the very depths of our sorrow, relive every terrible moment and endure the torture of asking what could've been and what will now be. we have to bleed out before our hearts can start beating again. ❞
          
          ━ claudia gray, a million words with you

▌❥I saw some people say they were having a hard time. I might not be able to do anything for you, but despite that fact, I want to be able to show you that I will support and love you from this distance that's between us all. So, don't think of too many negative thoughts. If you start thinking of negative thoughts, it's hard to stop. I've been there. It's never ending and you end up in a deep tunnel, I know it's not easy but you're much stronger than those thoughts. So try to think of positive thoughts. I hope you're always happy, I'm here for you and I love you <33

❝ how many of you didn't know certain things about yourself until you discovered them after spending a few hours with a new friend or going on holiday with your cousins? then suddenly you came across a trait you never knew you had. it's like you have to go through new experiences to know how you'd respond to them.
          
          
          you need to taste new food to find out what your favourite cuisine is. you need to press your feet into the sand and the ocean to remember how good it feels. you need to laugh at a few jokes before you learn more about your humour. you need to meet people, talk about life, philosophy and politics to know what your views on those matters truly are. you need to feel happiness like never before to realise what it means to you and how much you need it in your life.
          
          
          and you need to feel pain on the hands of people that you'll accept you don't need going forward. you need to fall head over heels in love with the wrong person to know what it's like when it's with the right. and sometimes you need to go through the darkest moments in your life so that when they pass - you realise that you want to truly welcome the light. ❞ 

▌ꕤ Not everyone will like this, but your
          mental health is more important than
          your career, the money, other people's
          opinions, that event you said you'd
          go to, your family's mood and wishes.
          If taking care of yourself means letting
          someone down, then let them down ⨾⨾⧉

❝ telling someone they need to let go and move on is speaking to them in a language they don't understand. letting go can be the most difficult thing to do, some of us never let go. we remain stuck forever. the language of letting go means placing yourself at a centre of a foreign place where you understand nothing. a place so uncomfortable, it stirs an anxiety in your belly, where each second is stretched into a lifetime. it is the acceptance of their death. whether there has been death or not. letting go is not knowing when you'll come out of them. it is knowing eventually you shall.	❞ - rupi kaur

❝ it's just really scary how unpredictable people are. at one moment, they make you feel as if you're finally home and get you all comfortable and attached to them and the next they could be so brutally distant and harsh to you. that isn't everyone though. life has its own ways to teach us a lesson that is letting go of what doesn't want to stay. believe me what wants to stay will find a reason to, despite all odds. who wants to genuinely be with you will never abandon you. someone who doesn't wanna stay won't care how deeply you love them. it's a tough lesson to learn. i hope you let go knowing that the better is yet to come. stay strong. ❞

❝ there will be some things you won't get over. some things that will sting you so hard they will set you back to where you started and you will hurt and hurt and hurt. but you will also rise from it. you will learn from the past. you will adapt and survive no matter how hard it gets. you will shape your own reality and accept how you should never settle for anything less than you deserve. ❞
          
          
          [✎ r. m. drake]