Do You Think 27 Is Still Young?

i'm both dumber and smarter than you think so don't underestimate me because i'm actually smart about a lot of stuff but also don't be surprised if i'm dumb about some other stuff hope that helps

It’s okay for you to grieve the life you thought you should have had.

this is so wolfstar coded

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

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-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

and sometimes when i think a meteor should destroy earth, us, i stop and remember.

i remeber there are still people who read on the subway. i remember there are little boys switching r to w when they speak. i remember there are old couples who still speak german because it was the first language they learned at the small german colony where they were born. i remember there are girls scared to make it official. and boys and girls in the path of falling in love with eachother. and boys in love who live together with their cats like an old married couple. and beautiful boys who play bass at church.

i remember there are big fluffy dogs the next doors. i remember someone still has lot of paper cranes to make before one thousand. i remember there are songs to be played in a guitar and to be sang to a crowd. i remember there are boybands yet to go huge. i remember there are museums holding so much art that is just waiting to be seen again tomorrow. i remember there are writers yet to show their writings to the world and love confessions yet to be made to beautiful boys who play bass at church.

i remember there are volleyball matches to be played in a couple of days. i remember there are ice cream flavors just waiting to be created. i remember there are people waiting to be bumped on and make friends with the bumper. i remember there are college professors with a lot of dad jokes to make and interesting remarks about your country's literature to teach.

i remeber there are big brothers living away from their little sisters who want to see them again. i remember there are parents counting the days to travel abroad to see the son they haven't seen in a couple of years. i remember that there are cousins who don't talk anymore just wanting a little bit of courage to reach out to eachother.

i remeber there is an ocean waiting for children to play in it tomorrow and waiting for new sailors to depart in their first journey. and a sky waiting for more planes to cross it and for rockets to leave it. and sunflowers waiting to be loved by teenagers just as much as they were loved by a dutch painter over a century ago. and dandellions waiting to carry people's whishes to the divinity they believe in.

so when i want a meteor to destroy us, i remember there are so many things a breath away from happening if we let the planet and its people live. there are so many things we get to appreciate and can keep appreciating if we let our planet and our people live

so when i want a meteor to destroy us i roll up my sleeves and fight for my planet and my people the way i can. there are things already lost, but we can pick up what we can save and show them what truly makes us human

“Don’t rub your eyes it leads to wrinkles and eye bags!!” you live in a world where you feel guilt over even the most microscopic of life’s pleasures and I will never want to join you there

i know kindness exists because i am kind

running to the hills (retiring every social media except for tumblr because i’m safe here nobody knows me)

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