Greyscalegrey - 🦥

so you dated the wrong person and learned a hard lesson. you chose the wrong major and had to start over again. you cherished a friend who backstabbed you. it sucks, but it’s also going to work out. that’s life; you learn, hurt, love, cry, laugh, and keep going. you experience setbacks and you grow and it’s all okay.

the way god has set me up to be the loneliest girl in literally any room group environment or dynamic

Madeline Miller, Circe

do you know how to fill a void? sometimes i feel empty inside and the feeling does not go away

I don’t think you need to do things with the intention of filling the void but instead do things with the intention of bringing yourself joy and meaning. If you can focus on experiencing good things as fully as you can that will take you away from the emptiness. Voids fill up in their own time while you are giving yourself love. Emptiness is not always a bad thing. It has something to teach you if you can listen every once in a while and be still with it, meet it, write with it. Have a conversation with this emptiness. Then treat yourself to openness with life, something new, something gentle. Even a small thing. Fill yourself up with lots of small loves for the world.

Casual cruelty has become so ingrained in a lot of people because we live in a society that is structured in a cruel way. To be quite honest you are obligated to consider the harm of your words and actions no matter your personal hardships.