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She was light

  She was light. She was music. She was the wind dancing through the trees, making waves in the sea. She would glide up a mountain watch the sunset with the sky painted in red and orange the color bleeding on the glistening white snow beneath it. She was a garden. She lived in the petals of flowers and ruffled through the wet grass, she would dance around with squirrels and fly above with the sparrows. She was beautiful. She was kind. She poured her soul and breathed life into everything around her. She had a heart as big as the ocean and she didn’t mind giving it out to those who lacked it. She was like water, she would flow through the tiniest openings into the hearts of people, and she could smooth out the blisters like water hitting on a rock. She was hope. She made me believe bad times don’t last and that giving up was never an option. But I saw her break. Like a tornado amidst the calm ocean. Like the sky tearing apart and the mountains crumbling to rubble. The birds stoppe...

self love

 “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.”-Rumi. How many times in a day do you look in the mirror and say that you are enough, how many times do you thank yourself for everything you do to make it through the day, how many times do you pat yourself on the back and appreciate yourself for making it through the scorching sun, the whipping winds, the deep waters, the dark nights and the pouring rains?  I remember crying in the darkest hours of night for not making it. I remember telling myself that I’m not doing enough. And to put a cherry on top of the hundred layer cake you have baked, people would pick on your biggest deepest insecurities and tell you to ‘fix’ yourself. It tears you apart not being able to live up to standards of your society. It wrecks your self-esteem when the best you do still has no social value. No one but you know what you are going through and so no one else can really tell how much it hurts w...