It is all messy. The hair. The bed. The words. The heart. Life.
It is only messy because you cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
You have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it. You have to love it and move on. Be better for it. Then run as fast as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dream. To #heal, I believe love and #loving will make it well with your soul.
• Breathe in gratitude and out forgiveness. Breathe in acceptance and breathe out love. You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
• Location: Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
If you feel you are a disaster, it is not forever. If you are a disaster, you are the most beautiful one I have ever seen. Think about it. Life is long. People both change and remain the same. That every one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven. Make a home out of your body, live in yourself. Do not let people turn you into a #regret. Do not justify yourself. Do not deconstruct from the inside out. You #belong here. You belong here, not because you are lovely, but because you are more than that.
It is important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. Complete the circle. Simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door. Change the record. Clean the house. Get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are. One day, you will realize that there are some people you will never see again. At least, not in the same way. Including yourself. Those are meaningful departures.
I could quit being happy but I am not a quitter. I work on my happiness like a full time job.
I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I wanted to be a certain kind of human. I wanted a certain kind of love and partner. I became that kind of woman. I found that certain love. If I could share some wisdom, particularly to the women in my life, and anyone I have yet to come across, wear your skin like a drunken apology. You do not have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your #success. You do not have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You do not have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You do not have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. They have no sense of life.
You do have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that is all. I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. It is important work. It is hard work.
You are going to be all right. All right is almost always where we all eventually land, even if we screw up entirely along the way.
The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. For me, sometimes it has felt like Groundhog Day, year after year, month to month, and day by day. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will. I feel too much. Every word. Every action. Everything goes straight to my heart.
I hope you will be surprised and knowing. I hope you will always have love. I hope you will have days of ease and a great laugh. You need a reason to be unhappy, but you do not need a reason to be happy.
I hope you all soaked up awesomeness from the weekend to carry you through the beautiful week, otherwise I will share some of my overflow ♥
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