I know this quote is talking about future and present but I like to see it as present and past. I feel like I look back on my teenage years and think it’s so cringe and I was so messy and made so many mistakes. but at this point, I’ve really built a life for myself that teenage me and current me is proud of. If I am worth something now, I was worth something then.
Dec 23, 2024
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I think I'm at the point of the life where I can finally feel grateful for the direction things are going, which is weird because if you asked me four years ago about the current standing of myself and everything, I'd be confused. And I think I have time to thank for my many epiphanies.
Time is scary, and that's what haunts me when I go to sleep. However, it can be a double edged sword. Though I may panic about the goodbyes I'll never properly say, the inevitable truth that I will no longer be a teenage girl and impending adulthood, time has graced me with a few things.
Instead of thinking waking up as a chore, I wake up eager to do things even if it's a mundane chore, to learn about a new obsession, to read, to love, to yearn.
The bonds I've formed, no matter how small or quick they dissappear. I'm lucky to say that I've learned at least one things from people I've formed relationships with, some miniscule compared to others. From these I've accepted to be raw, authentic, and to be present rather than to lose myself in the past or future
The ability to see what I've accomplished rather than what I haven't, to be compassionate to myself above all which I wish was something I had as a young adolescent.
I wish I could go back in time to thirteen year old me, even in a dream, and tell her to accept and live even in the midst of hell being a teenage girl. To take the risks and how even though the end of the fall is far, she'll have something to land on. To reassure that things do end up in her favor and instruct her to do the hardest thing ever: wait.
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Im basically reconsidering my entire career
today I went to a vintage shop I like and had a chat with the owner about a job and she was keen!!!!!! we had a cigarette and a black coffee and dumpster dived
It might not turn into anything but it felt like a nice affirmation of doing things for myself and actually figuring out what I like and care about
Teenage me would be so proud she was too busy surviving to develop a sense of self :’)
Feb 14, 2025
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I came across some pictures of myself from a couple of years ago and have realized how much has changed. Like, not only do I look so much different, but SO much has changed in my life too ??? obviously my undergrad experience has been nowhere near perfect but I feel like I have grown so much over the past four years. Like… my 2023 self really did not know that things could be better than I could have imagined !!! Life is so beautiful !!!!!
Feb 20, 2025
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so I’ve had this tails up penny in my entryway for a few weeks now. I haven't picked it up for fear of bad luck and I haven’t asked anyone else to pick up bc I don’t want them to have bad luck. Yesterday I decided to pick it up and put it down heads up in my apartment lobby so someone else can find good luck. the only way out is through.
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