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You’re not exceptional for being mortal, or having to learn to coexist with others.

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Control. Seems to be everyone wants it, but when you have it, it renders us debilitated.

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We may wear scars on our skin, but they cannot penetrate our soul.

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Do you live your life?

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The idea of time being a spiral is relaxing to me, though I’m not quite sure why. A therapist (I think it was the partially deaf one) explained this is because I am terrified of not being in control. Also I have no idea why I picked this photo to go with this article, it just looked very soothing to me.

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If you don’t do what they want you to you, they threaten you. They will take things away. They will do anything to manipulate you into doing what they want you to do. and if you don’t play by there rules you’ll pay for it.

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I’m learning to discard the parts of myself that don’t fit and shed the layers that no longer belong.

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She might look at herself and hold onto to a lot of baggage from her past but when she meets the right person they teach her other people’s problems aren’t hers to carry so heavy and she never deserved to be their emotional punching bag.

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Sometimes we give a person every last bit of us, but they find someone better. Sometimes we do no wrong to a person, but they hurt us.

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I think I’ve been dreaming about my teeth falling out because I am constantly surprised when I remember how people can exist without me. I don’t think I’m necessarily a vain person—I am just so easily obsessed with other people that it sets me back a bit when I realize that’s not really how things work for everyone else.