Wisdom comes from experience ~ @terryandrob

Wisdom comes from experience.

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God, sometimes tests us in troubled waters, not to drown us but to cleanse us.

When you get caught in thunderstorms, you learn to carry an umbrella wherever you go.

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Music by Al Green and Joss Stone

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Words of advice. AKA this is a PSA!

If you meet someone out and about in person and you see that you have a comment or shared interest. The proper way to pursue a possible friendship would be to Simply indicate you guys have that shared interest and wouldn't be all right to exchange numbers or contacts.

The improper way, which I just experienced, is the following.

Do not proceed to hold the person's food hostage in a restaurant environment and ask them 20 questions to see if they really know what the fandoms about. Do not proceed to then after having the answer successful and your theoretical vetting complete, ask them for their number. And do not get upset with them if they feel aggravated and annoyed at having their food withheld in order to answer questions and answers about something they would have willingly discussed in a happier setting had you just simply asked for their contact.

Bucko (And The Lesson of Love Vs Infatuation)

BUCKO (AND THE LESSON OF LOVE VS INFATUATION) by RebelwheelsNYC / Michele Sommerstein

My stranger, turned best friend, turned lover, (turned love) turned friend, turned almost stranger, again STOP! these crossroads this, strange silence, as if we were never lovers just… random and quiet souls, bumbling through the city streets, mumbling to ourselves how I long for the days before we made a mess, of this love do you remember when we used to just talk! freely, laugh! be!?

(We had so much to unlearn) in that head of yours, I am so thirsty for your thoughts, and in that heart of yours and in your soul, are you aching? are you nothing? tell me!

and yes, so what! love isn’t what we thought. Disney, Hollywood, radio love songs, swooning us to some ideal, some idea, that it all just magically works out. conflicting with our parent’s tainted versions of love (Our parents who were never in love) making us cynics before our time poisoning us with the idea that it doesn’t get better then what they had never once giving a hint to what love really was

clumsy and struggling, like fish out of water these sons and daughters, raised on dysfunction clutching… grasping but never really knowing no one ever taught us what does one do with love?

and now our once free hearts and tongues, that could only spew out words of love and affection, and lust spew out, watered down answers, stifled answers they now struggle in the awkwardness, and barriers of this love affair damaged and repeated,

(This, that broke our hearts this, that broke our bond this, that needed to happen in order for us, to grow. For we, were not ready, for love.) This poem was taken from the zine Rebelwheels NYC: A Call For Healing And Rebellion. Please check it out.

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Character is much easier kept ~ @Thomas1774Paine

Character is much easier kept

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Day 6

7 Day Self Love Challenge

Day 6: Celebrating your journey

Q: What have you overcome to be who you are today? Describe a time you’ve made yourself proud?

A:            Being my true self and standing up for what I believe in. I did not always have the same strong personality that I have today. As I got older, I began to see things of the world and differences in the people occupying it so that alone guided me with the set of morals and beliefs that I have. As a kid you are taught certain things and sometimes it follows us for the rest of our lives good or bad. Me personally some of those things I left behind because it did not fit with who I really was.

 Even gathering the courage to come out to my family and friends years ago knowing that some of them would stay and others would decide to separate themselves. I had held onto it for some time but when you know who you are there is no stopping it. I love this life for me! To be so outspoken on top of being loud and proud about my blackness, my gayness, and womanhood is an amazing feeling. Who wouldn’t be proud because I know I am.

Motivation of the day: One day you’ll wake up and realize your own worth. You’ll be embarrassed by what you use to settle for and never give up your value again.  

Signed & Sealed: Lexus from Texas

If hurting me does not hurt you, you don’t love me. You’re using me.

k.b // by jerry flowers jr

If life can remove people you never dreamt of losing, it can replace them with someone you never dreamt of having.

-@lipikkawrites