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Do you ever just feel ugly? I don’t mean looking in the mirror and being unsatisfied with the reflection. Realistically, everyone has experienced that at least once in their lifetimes and most likely, more than once. There is room for body positivity, but I also feel there’s room for seeing our shortcomings and letting it
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It’s taken me a long time. I mean years and years of screaming into some dark, uncaring void. Some void filled with my insanity and pain I kept trying to mask as normalcy. Funny thing about normal, we spend so much of our time trying to portray some perceived normal we have built in our
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“Save it for later.” I’ve used that phrase more times than I care to admit. Just save it for later. Or, I’ll do it later. I told myself that just the other day as I was reaching into my cabinet to pull out new hand soap for the bathroom and kitchen as the previous ones
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It’s dark and quiet in the room. The lights are turned down low. Your family has left. It’s just me left. Just me, and you, and your quiet slow breaths. I pull a stool up beside your bed and wrap my hand around yours. I could leave. Your family has. Apparently at peace with what
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There’s a moment when it all settles in. When the dust clears and the demons quiet again. Your soul reaches a place of peace. I thread my fingers through the threads of my life and there are some snags here and there but in the grand scheme of things they are minute and matter very
I Would Rather Be In Bed 