It doesn’t happen like that. You don’t just wake up one day and find that everything has worked itself out. You must get out of bed, morning after morning, and make a conscious effort to control the circumstances of that given day. You must learn to handle your issues with grace because you respect what they are attempting to teach you. You must drown your insecurities slowly, one self-realization at a time. You must allow yourself to feel the fear bubbling just beneath your skin but you must never allow it the satisfaction of crippling you; grit your teeth and march on. You see, they never tell you how hard these things will be. This fight to reclaim yourself is not easy or straightforward but, my god, is it necessary.
I felt like a school teacher who goes home to no children, a cab driver without a car, a therapist who cries in the middle of the night and can’t figure out why.
| — | Olivia Gatwood, “What Sex Becomes” (via buttonpoetry) |
i hope you fall in love with someone who makes you question why you ever thought you would be better off alone
“You can’t change what has already happened, so don’t waste your time thinking about it, move on, let go and get over it.”— Unknown (via neckkiss)
