“““You’re Not A Monster,” I Said. But I Lied. What I Really Wanted To Say Was That A Monster

“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””

— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

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1 year ago

YOUR FEELINGS MAKE SENSE!!! CONSIDERING EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN YOUR LIFE UP UNTIL THIS POINT, THE WAY YOU FEEL IS THE REASONABLE RESULT OF IT ALL. It dosen’t absolve you of examining your behavioral patterns or regulating your reactions, but GIVE YOURSELF SOME GRACE. YOU’RE REACTING EXACTLY HOW SOMEONE IN YOUR EXACT PRECISE SITUATION, WITH YOUR EXACT SAME PAST WOULD REACT. like, why wouldn’t you feel that way?

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{Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect Of My Own Destruction Page 24/ Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin,
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9 months ago

i think the problem is that i forgive people before i even let myself be angry at them


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3 years ago
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2 years ago

"I am destroying myself so other people can't," she said, "and it's the worst kind of control but it's the only form I know."

— (via sofijasofia)

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