verameum:

The best souls I have met thus far are an assortment of learned, simple, flawed, wealthy, poor, and yet consistently admirable persons. So what is common among them? A keen understanding of their own limitations, a sense of higher purpose beyond themselves, a desire and effort to improve, lightheartednesss, and a ready capacity for empathy.

ninebaralc:

2016 was a particularly challenging year for me. It felt like I was constantly in between opposing realities: Love vs. fear, pleasure vs. pain, rest vs. play, now vs. later. The demand was too much. I couldn’t please me so I had to please people. I was always tired and I had little room for joy. I couldn’t forgive myself for that. But it was also the year I realized, all the time I spend wasting away and complaining, what are they all for? Is not life made up of moments? Isn’t forever made up of nows? When all this is gone, what memories do I get to keep? I have to be present for myself. Otherwise, I’ll just continue to miss out!

I learned not to be in such a rush all the time. It’s okay to slow down. Take time to open your eyes and adjust your mind to a position of gratitude before getting out of bed in the morning. Take time to curate playlists for your car ride on the way to work or school. Take time to have coffee with a friend and get lost in conversation. Take time to treat your parents out for ice cream and ask about their childhood. Take time to talk to yourself cause sometimes the only person who can understand yourself is you. Take time to feel, no matter how unpleasant or shameful that feeling is. Just take it, whatever is there in front of you. Don’t just stare at it, take it and turn it into a song or whatever form of expression you have just make something out of it. That’s the only way you get to keep your soul going. Don’t miss out. Life is one big beautiful mess, it would be a shame not to take part in it. 

Me, lately.