i love posts that end with something along the lines of “and i am going to live”, because it’s like yes! everything is happening and this world is spinning and you are going to live. because of and in spite of so many things, you are going to live.
“hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me” is the funniest phrase because it always does. it always will. from personal experience things have already started to rouse from their slumber before i even get the first three words out
having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer
Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)
[Text ID: I say: How is this my concern? I'm a spectator / He says: No spectators at chasm's door ... and no / one is neutral here. And you must choose / your part in the end]
something dies in you when you see the way they die. they die and it's pure bliss thereafter but we die and we have to live on still with the burden of having been of not much help to them. something dies in you with them when you see them die.