On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva

—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

— Jean Rhys, from “Wide Sargasso Sea.”

please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future. 

one of my favorite poem titles 

Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost

Edward Hirsch, from “The Widening Sky”, Lay Back the Darkness