Empathy Isn’t A Requirement. You’re Not Required To Empathise, Neither Is It Your Job To. “Oh You

i think as a society we should go back to designing furniture w little feet. it would heal us.

having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

i want to sow my own clothes and i want to feel the soft fabric turning into something under my fingers. i want to make my own limoncello and apricot liquor and fill the house with the scent of sweet fruit and sugar boiling. i want to stock the cabinets with wonky, hand-made & prettily painted mugs and bowls and plates. set the table in colour for friends and family while my eclectic vinyl collection is playing in the background. essentially i want so badly to surround myself with the intimate tastes and small dreams i have for my own creation. personal beauty everywhere

The door to the summer garden (2020)

I always love coming back here because every other social media platform is too loud

You don’t have to put on a shield at the onset of your day, but you do have to realise that you have a heart and it makes you feel, it helps you feel, and you’ll have to allow that. I repeat this is not a war, this is you living, treat yourself with care, rather than masking it under a tough exterior

Timid petals,

Fell on my lips

Rusted metal,

Bound on my ribs

Knew you wouldn’t settle

For anything but bliss

Here’s to my purity and insanity

I was a prisoner of fall,

A prisoner of fall

~ ghosts of tulips past :: 💌

YOU DESERVE TO BE SPENT TIME WITH It’s important to realise that not every person out there has been set out to take advantage of you, we have our own past, we have our own lessons, but each and every individual out there, deserves to have the benefit of doubt for not necessarily having an ulterior motive against you. You are doing what you can out of your complete will, learn to slowly dissolve the thought where you think you don’t deserve to have anybody else’s company around you or you’re only worth spending time with because you’re their only way in and out of a loop.

Sure people NEED you, but that does not equate to them tossing you away once they’re done wrapping up. Because every time I think about it, it’s the same as somebody else shutting me out, with no regards to an explanation or having second thoughts about the way I’ve allowed myself to feel around them,about the way I’ve allowed myself to fully and completely love the deepest corners of their mind, body and heart. It felt bad to be given up on that easily. Refrain, reflect and then proceed :) you are healing, NOT shielding, there’s a difference. Let’s not blur the line <3

just found out that “wish you were here” in persian is ‘jāy-e shomā khālīst’ which means “your place is empty” and it felt like being stabbed in the heart 37 times