To put things into perspective

Remember this:Life is not a game.Life is not a sport.Life is not a competition.It can’t be summed up by a number or a word.Not all of the numbers and words combined.It’s everything and everyone you could possibly ever think of,have ever thought of,and the reason you think at all.-S

I want for you

to wake up in the morning and tell yourself that no matter WHAT comes into your life on this day, you will NOT let it take any ounce of your worth because you are complete before anything comes your way. Whisper to yourself before your head departs from the pillow that you have everything you […]

So sad

to think that you’re not enough exactly as you are, and when we write for others we must not struggle to feel that we are. The desire to be heard, to be known, is real, but if we lose ourselves in the process of expressing for others, obsessing about their reactions to what we have […]

Connected to my dad

When other people send me photos from their travels, I don’t save them to my camera roll because they aren’t my memories. But when my dad sends me a photo, I do. Something about the fact that I am here half because of him makes the experience of seeing the sights he sees much more […]

I hope

1/23/20. that stars light up your world tonight, and that the space between them doesn’t consume you. You deserve only the gentlest of nights. May peaceful sleep take over your body and free you of all gravity. You got through another day, may you now enjoy the freedom of rest you seek before tomorrow asks […]

Waves

1/19/20. If I’m an ocean, my waves don’t crash and dissipate along the shore until they’ve had some time to freeze and linger first, moments not washing over smoothly when they hit too hard. In this ocean, hurricanes form and fade away before they touch the land, so no one knows that they occurred, but […]

Nightmares

1/17/20. I wish that I could visit you in your dreams. Most people forget about them in the morning, but that doesn’t make them any less real. In sleeping moments, that’s your world, your reality. I woke up this morning and had to tell myself that my dreamt up world wasn’t real because it was […]