Scrambled Begs
Something I have learned as I've been striving to become an adult (see: College) is that life is complicated. Everything is complicated. Good things can come out of bad things and there is like an infinite amount of sides to a story and things can suck for no reason. This is incredibly complicated.
I am a strong person. This I have reclaimed.
There are many different ways to love someone. And whether it's because it's just hard or because I am only 19 years of age, it's hard to tell in what way you love someone.
This miscalculation, the uncertainty in knowing how exactly, which way exactly you love someone can hurt them. How complicated is that?
I don't know if you've heard, but I am the luckiest person in the world. One time I was told not to use the word "lucky" but to use the word "fortunate," but I didn't like that. "Fortunate" implies that you earned it. I don't like this idea because that means I could at some point for some reason stop deserving and thus stop having the wonderful things in my life that I have… I don't want to be deserted by these wonderful people and wonderful things in my weakest, most undeserving moments. No thanks.
It is a gift to have something worth mourning the loss of. Every time as of late that I have mourned, I have simultaneously thanked the cosmos. You have worthwhile things in your life if you would mourn their loss. Remember this and thank your lucky stars.
We should be kinder to ourselves. There is productivity and kindness in letting ourselves feel our feelings. It's scary, I get that, but we are imperfect and will have scary feelings sometimes, but can you tell me that bullying yourself for having scary feelings helps? Ride it all out. More than that, we are not cut out to feel stress and anguish forever. We are literally not wired to feel this permanently. Ride it out and then when it's over, if even for a little bit, appreciate every tingle of happiness. This is what feeling alive feels like.
Life is a good place. Happiness and gratefulness are good states of minds. We are so lucky. If you are reading this, I've probably thanked my lucky stars and the cosmos for you. BLAH!
Hi, Lana. I didn't get to know you all that well in high school, but from the insightfulness and warmth expressed from this particular post, I wish we had. You are indeed strong, stronger than you could possibly know. I think we're supposed to be unaware of the enormous limits of our strength, because then we have the amazing opportunity to constantly surprise ourselves when we do "overcome seemingly insuperable barriers" (check out that YouTube video, btw). Never lose your faith and optimism in people. From my experiences, those are precious endangered species.
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