Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low,
Only hate the road when you’re missin’ home
Only know you love her when you let her go.
college; the musical
featuring such hits as:
- the fuck do you mean this textbook is $250
- why am i the only one in the group doing the assignment
- final exams more like no
- how did my gpa get so low
- this ta really needs to stop
- i’m never going to finish this 7,000 word essay by tomorrow
- how did my gpa get so high (reprise)
You are allowed to terminate toxic relationships.
You are allowed to walk away from people who hurt you.
You are allowed to be angry and selfish and unforgiving.
You don’t owe anyone an explanation for taking care of yourself.
Why, yes. Yes, I am fat. And grotesque. But I knew that already. No need for you to point it out. But oh wait - Vegas-skinny? There’s one I haven’t heard of.. You’re right though! I’m only Vegas-skinny. I get it. Because you can be 500 pounds and still be skinny in Vegas; because its Vegas and for once in your goddamn life you can pretend you are as skinny as you have ever wanted to be. I wish I was so skinny that I just evaporated into the air. Just disappeared, skin and flesh and bones and all. Then I’d be skinny enough to wear that outfit, right? Real skinny, I mean, not just Vegas-skinny.
me: ha well i bet you don’t want me to go to a wedding with you so i don’t get any ideas.. huh?
him: what?! babe, i would love to be married to you.. what kind of ideas could you possibly get from a wedding that i wouldn’t want you to already have??
for the first time today, i felt emotionally empowered and strong.
for the first time today (as i turned onto the freeway ramp driving to work), i thought to myself, “i feel really free and happy, not being close to my boyfriend and getting to be independent most of the time. i like this.”
for the first time today, i felt like i had the best of both worlds. i had someone to depend on, to lean on when i need a shoulder, and to love me and care for me. but at the same time, i had my freedom. i had my own life, a schedule that consisted of only my own priorities. i cater to no one but myself, and after a very long time of catering to somebody else, this - this feels nice.
the feeling will probably evaporate completely by tomorrow and i will transform back into that emotionally needy, whiny, dependent little bitch that i am.
i wonder if i will ever feel something like this again.
— Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan (via fuckoff-mondays)q
how can i teach someone to love herself when i don’t know how to do it?
how can i teach someone that her bodies are beautiful no matter what shape, when i don’t believe that about my own?
and how can i teach someone to stand up for herself when i let people take advantage of me and get away with it, every single time..?
can you keep a secret? i wanted to ask, can you keep a secret for me?
but i couldn’t trust anyone enough to tell them, so it’ll stay with me i guess. i wanted to scream out what he had done. but i don’t like burning bridges and watching people realize somebody they love had done something so despicable. so i’m keeping my mouth shut, zipped, tight. it’ll stay with me.
but you. you know exactly what you did. you probably don’t think anything of it but i hope it eats away a part of your conscience, because it’s NOT right, and you know it. i think i did a pretty good job this morning pretending like it was all okay. i looked you in the eyes. i smiled, and laughed. i can be a good actress sometimes.
maybe it’s me. really. i mean, these things always happen to me. so maybe it’s not everybody else but it’s something wrong with me.
i hate the drive to san diego. it reminds me of how much distance will always, always, always be between us.