merry christmas to everyone who didn’t get presents today because their family couldn’t afford it and merry christmas to everyone who couldn’t make it home for the holidays and merry christmas to everyone spending it alone i want you all to know that i hope you all have a great great end of the year and i love you all and even if your holidays weren’t how you pictured them i hope you still have a good rest of the holidays and year
i don't know what younger person needs to hear this, but it is so valid to not want to drink alcohol at all, or to only want to drink very rarely. don't let others pressure you into joining in with those societal rituals. it is an outrage how normalized drinking alcohol is, to the point that those who choose to abstain are constantly forced to justify their private choices, be publicly questioned about what led to these choices or excluded from activities altogether. you do not ever need to justify your reasons for this. there are absolutely valid and important reasons to not drink, and nobody has a right to know your personal reasonings.
The Maria Laach monastery library
you’re not a burden for being negative some days, for being anxious, for being sad, for being upset
You don’t have to have thick skin. It’s okay for you to be hurt by hurtful things! No one should be telling you to get over it or ignore it.
When people think you’re getting better but you’re just getting better at hiding it.
there is no unlived life or alternative reality where everything went right…. there is only here and now what are you going to do with it
Ted Godwin (Canadian, 1933-2013), Evening 2. Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 in.






