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41 " i’m not going to pretendto be less intelligent than i amso a man can feelmore comfortable around methe one i deservewill see my greatness andwant to lift it higher "
― Rupi Kaur , Home Body
42 " depression is silentyou never hear it comingand suddenly it'sthe loudest voice in your head "
43 " if you triedand didn’t end upwhere you wanted to gothat’s still progress "
44 " i miss the days my friendsknew every mundane detail about my lifeand i knew every ordinary detail about theirsadulthood has starved me of that consistencythat usthe walks around the blockthe long conversations when we weretoo lost in the moment to care what time it waswhen we won and celebratedwhen we failed and celebrated harderwhen we were just kidsnow we have our very important jobsthat fill up our very busy scheduleswe compare calendars just to plan coffee datesthat one of us eventually cancelscause adulthood is being too exhaustedto leave our apartment most daysi miss knowing i once belongedto a group of people bigger than myselfthat belonging made life easier to live- friendship nostalgia "
45 " i have never known anything more quietly loud than anxiety "
46 " i have this productivity anxietythat everyone else is working harder than meand i’m going to be left behindcause i’m not working fast enoughlong enoughand i’m wasting my timei don’t sit down to have breakfasti take it to goi call my mother when i’m free—otherwiseit takes too long to have a conversationi put off everything thatwon’t bring me closer to my dreamsas if the things i’m putting offare not the dream themselvesisn’t the dreamthat i have a mother to calland a table to eat breakfast atinstead i’m lost in the sick needto optimize every hour of my dayso i’m improving in some waymaking money in some wayadvancing my career in some waybecause that’s what it takesto be successfulrighti excavate my lifepackage it upsell it to the world[...]capitalism got inside my headand made me think my only valueis how much i producefor people to consumecapitalism got inside my headand made me thinki am of worthas long as i am workingi learned impatience from iti learned self-doubt from itlearned to plant seeds in the groundand expect flowers the next daybut magicdoesn’t work like thatmagic doesn’t happencause i’ve figured out how topack more work in a daymagic movesby the laws of natureand nature has its own clockmagic happenswhen we playwhen we escapedaydream and imaginethat’s where everythingwith the power to fulfill usis waiting on its knees for us- productivity anxiety "
47 " i am trusting the uncertaintyand believing i willend up somewhereright and good "
48 " my mind keeps running off to dark corners and coming back with reasons for why i am not enough "
49 " make it a pointto love yourselfas fiercely as you do other people- commitment "
50 " you lose everythingwhen you don't love yourself- and gain everything when you do "
51 " it’s easy to lovethe nice things about ourselvesbut true self-love isembracing the difficult partsthat live in all of us- acceptance "
52 " i want to leave this place knowing i did something with my body other than trying to make it look perfect "
53 " my mindmy bodyand iall live in one placebut it feels like we arethree completely different people- disconnected "
54 " how can i be so cruel to myself when i’m doing the best i can - be gentle "
55 " you are lonelybut you are not alone- there is a difference "
56 " you are a soul. a world. a portal. a spirit. you are never alone. you are organs and blood and flesh and muscle. a colony of miracles weaving into each other. "
57 " we already have the things that can complete usthey just aren’t thingsthey are peopleand laughter and connection- irreplaceable "
58 " i’m breathing aren’t ithat’s gotta be a sign thatthe universe is on my sideif i’ve made it this fari can make it all the way "
59 " i get so lostin where i want to goi forget that the place i’m inis already quite magical "
60 " i’m not going to pretend to be less intelligent than i am so a man can feel more comfortable around me "