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121 " my body and i all live in one place but it feels like we are three completely different people - disconnected "
― Rupi Kaur , Home Body
122 " hoje me vi pela primeira vezquando tirei a poeirado espelho da minha mentee a mulher que me encarou de voltame tirou o fôlegoafinal quem era aquela criatura tão lindaaquela terráquea extracelesteeu toquei meu rosto e meu reflexotoquei a mulher dos meus sonhostoda sua beleza me sorria nos olhosmeus joelhos se renderam à terrae eu chorei suspirando pensandoque eu tinha passado a vida inteirasendo eumas não me vendotinha passado décadas morandono meu corposem sair nem uma veze mesmo assim tinha ignoradoseus milagresé curioso como somos capazesde ocupar um espaço semestar em sintonia com elecomo eu pude demorar tantopara abrir os olhos dos meus olhosaceitar o coração do meu coraçãobeijar os meus pés inchadose ouvi-los sussurrandoobrigadoobrigadoobrigadopor nos ver "
123 " while everyone else was living their life in color depression froze me in place "
124 " productivity is not how much work i do in a day but how well i balance what i need to stay healthy "
125 " the land sprawled its limbs and said put your feet up the trees said we will give you life the air said breathe me in the earth said take care of what takes care of you and we turned our backs on all of them - betrayal "
126 " nothing lasts forever let that be the reason you stay even this sick twisted misery will not last "
127 " i don’t care about perfection i’d rather roll deep in the messiness of life "
128 " i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else "
129 " the love of family friends and community is just as potent as the love of a romantic relationship”“we can work at our own pace and still be successful”“is it possible to be born with such a melancholy spirit”“i’m breathing aren’t i that’s gotta be a sign that the universe is on my side”“productivity is not how much work i do in a day but how well i balance what i need to stay healthy "
130 " but this finding ourselves bullshit is never going to end i’m tired of putting off living until i have more information on who i am i’m a new person every month always becoming and unbecoming only to become again our fuller selves are not off in the future they’re right here in the only moment that exists i don’t need fixing i will be searching for answers my whole life not because i’m a half-formed thing but because i’m brilliant enough to keep growing everything necessary to live a vivid life already exists in me-i am complete simply because i am imperfect "
131 " i will never have this version of me againlet me slow downand be with her-ways evolving "
132 " i’m tired of putting off living until i have more information on who i am i’m a new person every month always becoming and unbecoming only to become again "
133 " i have difficulty separating abusive relationships from healthy onesi can’t tell the difference between love and violence - it all looks the same "
134 " anxiety feels like i’m hanging off the side of a building and my hand is going toslip any second "
135 " abuse doesn’t just happen in romantic relationships abuse can live in friendships too "
136 " you can’t quiet a woman who was born muzzled "
137 " what a privilege it is to grow into the finest version of myself "
138 " no one on this planet is in more denial than the white man who regardless of all the evidence in front of him still thinks racism and sexism and all the world’s pain don’t exist "
139 " be here in what needs to be done today "
140 " i can’t take my eyes off of me now that i see myself i can’t take my mind off of me can’t believe the tricks my hands have been up to the sermons i spoke into existence the mountains i crushed with my fingers and the mountains i built from all the shit people tried to stone me to death with - warrior "