don’t get stuck. move, travel, take a class, take a risk. there is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. this season is about becoming. don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. now is your time. walk closely with people you love. don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep travelling honestly along life’s path.
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let there be light ..
“it’s like i was running and running and there were trees twisting their roots into the dirt and they tripped me and the branches, they scratched my face, and the wind, it burned my eyes and tangled my hair, and the sun, the sun kept threatening to set, and i didn’t know if there was enough light, could there still be enough light for me to make it to you before it was gone? and the light did leave, it left just like i feared it would, but don’t worry, please don’t worry, because no one ever told me, but when the sun sinks behind the horizon, the stars take its place, don’t you know the stars take its place? and there was enough light, thank God there was enough light and i promise you, i promise, there will always be enough light for me to find my way to you.”
– fortesa latifi. 20 years old. poet.
