coolgirlae

[coolgirlae]

the smallest artist i listen to? probably the bird outside my window

[coolgirlae]

When people are always complaining it actually scares me like what are you allowing to ravage your consciousness like this. And in what way does it serve you. Take a toothbrush to your mind be minty fresh

[coolgirlae]

do it scared do it stupid do it badly whatever it is that's worth doing, that's worth anything at all, we do it. be it scared be it stupid be it badly. the sincerity remains the same.

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[coolgirlae]

i do, often, think of that quote from wislawa szymborska talking about love and the inexplicability of some of it. "great love is never justified" etc. and it truly isn't. and thank god for that.

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#🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[coolgirlae]

if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

[coolgirlae]

hush little baby dont you cry. mamas gonna buy you a big horse fly. and if that big horse fly dont fly. mamas gonna buy you another horse fly

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My Collection

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me writing the worst paragraph of my life knowing that a sexier, more hydrated version of me will fix it later

[coolgirlae]

To remain wide eyed and lively even when the ground feels unsteady beneath my feet, to approach the world’s unknowns in the same way I root through the parts of myself that were once tucked away, to allow my spirit to kiss life right on the lips!

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Solar eclipse shadows

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[coolgirlae]

the bus to itself every time you press the button:

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there should be a Sisyphus emoji

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"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

[coolgirlae]

ignoring red flags because you want to “see the good in people” will cost you later