you are a Daughter of the Sun, / And you belong only to yourself, not to this world. - Nikita Gill

Stop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness

Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.

remind ourselves that grief may feel longer
and more poignant than happiness
but it still has an ending.