Onedayiamgoingtogrowwings

“Now my wishes are down to two: / Staying alive. And wanting to.”

— Traci Brimhall, from “Dear Thanatos,” Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod (via lifeinpoetry)

Ellen Bass,  "The Thing Is"

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

you guys literally are all so brave. even through the screen i can tell. keep going

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love (in conversation with Nicolas Truong) trans. Peter Bush

Cameron Awkward-Rich, from "Meditations in an Emergency", Dispatch

“Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.”

— Unknown

things that are scary that you just have to get over at some point

being wrong (as distinct from)

other people having different opinions from you (as distinct from)

minor disagreements

the eternal uncertainty caused by living in a universe where luck exists (e.g. Just Anything could happen to you for no reason)

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i've had this list open for so long but i can't think of anything else

i sorta feel like most other fears are kind of fine to have

oh like spiders i guess