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I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea I just need to sit by the sea

#yes yes yes #so totally yes

[yesjojobirdflyhigh]

Chal aa ek aisi nazm kahoon

jo lafz kahoon vo ho jaaye

main aa likkhoon tu aa jaaye

main baith likkhoon tu aa baithe

mere shaane par sar rakhe tu

main neend kahoon tu so jaaye

main dil likkhoon tu dil thaame

main gum likkhoon vo kho jaaye

main aah likhoon tu haay kare

bechain likhoon bechain ho tu

phir bechain ka be kaatoon

tujhe chain zara sa ho jaaye

abhi ع likhoon tu soche mujhe

phir ش likhoon teri neend ude

jab ق likhoon tujhe kuch kuch ho

main ishq likhoon tujhe ho jaaye

#this is sooo beautiful #i can't #poems #urdu #hindi

[yesjojobirdflyhigh]

So many things I’m learning to live with, live without, and live through.

#yes yes yes

[yesjojobirdflyhigh]

forever in awe of people who pay attention. people who wait for you while you tie your shoes while the others have walked away. when they continue listening intently while the rest of the group stopped listening. noticing your moments of silence when everyone else hasn’t. “this made me think of you” noticing things you never even noticed about yourself. people who say “text me when you get home safe.” people who make you laugh until you cry. childhood friends who keep in touch. people with genuine intentions. people who are soft when the world has given them every opportunity to turn hard. the “let’s get ice cream” at 3am friend. the turn up the music in the car and sing friend. people whose actions match their words. people who make the world feel less chaotic. kindred spirits. the trustworthy and honest. hard workers. good listeners. clear communicators. people who love you for who you are. people who don’t ask you to be anything other than yourself. people who choose you. people who stay.

#yes yes yes

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The answer to your problems is self-discipline

#this is so real

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Adrianne Lenker for Crack Magazine, March 2024

#goddess #adrianne lenker

[yesjojobirdflyhigh]

I put in my goddamn hearing aid

in order to listen to a bird that sounds

like the side of a drinking glass

struck lightly by a fork

and try not to hate a life

that dips you in time like a teabag

over and over and pulls you up

each year a slightly different color.

Yet I like this hour when the air goes soft

and leaves stir with relief at the end

of their labor of being leaves.

“What a piece of work is man,” I say,

not knowing Hamlet said it first—

“how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties,

in form and moving how express; in apprehension how like an angel,

and yet, to me, the quintessence of dust!”

This hour of the evening

with a little infinity inside,

like an amnesty from the interminable

condition of being oneself.

This half-hour when you look out

and see that it is sweet.

Even in my deafness I can hear

the bird whose name I do not know

speaking to someone in the dusk.

- Summer Dusk, Tony Hoagland

#tony hoagland #reread #poems #w

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Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

#reblogging as a reminder

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Anis Mojgani, from “Here I Am”, Songs from Under the River: A Collection of Poetry

#yes yes yes #heal #anis mojgani #poems

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here it is a collection of poems about hope and or holding on despite everything !

I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay

A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde

Snowdrops by Louise Glück

Most Days I Want to Live by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Insha’Allah by Danusha Laméris

A Good Day by Kait Rokowski

Invitation by Mary Oliver

Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón

Tommorow is a Place by Sanna Wani

The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke

To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Night Walk by Franz Wright

Sorrow is Not My Name by Ross Gay

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

The Letter by Linda Greg

Testify by Eve L. Ewing

Every Day as a Wide Field, Every Page by Naomi Shihab Nye

#on hope #to be read #poems

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i love pancakes, i love emotional music, i love women, i love sunlight coming through the window. etc etc

#yes yes yes

[yesjojobirdflyhigh]

me trying to convince myself that the whole spectrum of human emotions is a good and necessary thing to feel even if its not comfortable while im actively experiencing emotions that make me feel like my bones are being dissolved in acid

#yes yes yes

[yesjojobirdflyhigh]

There is so much more life to live when you stop constantly obsessing over who will think you're a bad person or not understand you

I am learning this in the tiniest bites but it pierces me deeply

#yes yes yes #ways to live #manifesting

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really strange how you can be almost at peace with something that happened to you but it will continue to be a defining moment of your life for the rest of your life. you wont think about it much anymore but in a conversation about a film someone will mention the year it was released and you’ll think to yourself, “that was before it happened” and you’ll see an old photo and think how strange it is to have existed before it happened and somehow it’s like living a life in two acts

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"photograph of a young palestinian girl flying her kite on al-waha beach, gaza, 2011. on this day, 6,200 palestinian children filled the gaza sky with kites, achieving the guinness world record for most kites flown simultaneously. the culture of kite flying amongst gaza youth remains a symbol of resilience, creativity, and joy. over the past 7 weeks, the amount of children killed by the israeli state has nearly surpassed this number, continuing to rise each day. we must continue calling for a permanent ceasefire now. the devastation must end" — via @azeemamag on instagram

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Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

#ottessa moshfegh #yes yes yes

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#w