Something I try to do a lot is be the person child me needed back then. I try and be this person for my inner child now. I try to show myself the compassion I deserved. I try to protect myself like I should have been protected.
I can’t go back and change the past. But I can be here now and be that person for my inner child now.
I want a Part 1 fic where Kakashi's like "I'm so sorry, rich and powerful lordling who is in love with my cute female student, but unfortunately you can't marry Sakura because she's already engaged to her teammate Sasuke Uchiha." And Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto are all like "HEEEEEEEEEEH??????" but then proceed to go along with it because all three of them detest this pretentious rich kid from the bottom of their hearts.
‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’
- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.
i must not lie down on my bed with my phone. lying down with my phone is the time-killer. lying down with my phone is the little mistake that brings total academic obliteration. i will face my phone. i will permit it to show me my updated tumblr feed. and when i have scrolled past a few posts i will turn over my phone and place it down. where the procrastination has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain