“I Hope That Someday, Somebody Wants To Hold You For Twenty Minutes Straight, And That’s All They

#tattoo by Pari Corbitt @pari_corbitt (at WA Ink Tattoo)

Normalise giving your friends forehead or even little mouth kisses.

Normalise stroking your friends’ hair.

Normalise sitting on laps.

Normalise cuddling up and spooning with friends to take naps.

Normalise ‘I love yous’

Normalise cooking for your friends when they are sick, or just because.

Normalise holding hands with friends for safety, comfort or just because the pressure is nice.

Normalise tight pressure hugs that last a little longer.

Normalise platonic affection

this is what my relationship looks like

A friend of mine who’s been married for 10 years and has 2 children confessed to me yesterday that she’s tired of being a wife and a mother.

This isn’t the first time someone has said this to me. It’s mostly from women who got married and had kids in their early 20’s before they got a chance to realize the woman they really are. And they grow to hate their life and resent their family. And it’s heartbreaking to see how heavy their guilt is.

Marriage and having children is not the ultimate goal for some women. Many do it because they feel it’s the natural order of things and those women usually realize one day that if they had the chance to do it all over again they wouldn’t.

If you have doubts about wanting kids, wait. Don’t pressure yourself to have children because you feel it’s what’s expected of you.

And don’t marry someone either because you feel you must by a certain age or if you feel obligated.

It’s OK if you don’t want to ever get married or have children. It’s OK if you don’t want to become someone’s wife or mother. You’re not less of a woman. Live your life for yourself.

Zorita and her snake

Getting over excited w lights 🙊

─ Hisham Siddiqi

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