Concept: We’re traveling together to some far away place, and you’re looking peacefully outside the airplane window, but I can’t stop staring at you instead.
You want some real legitimate advice about mental health? Stop being mean to yourself.
Like, when you wanna say mean shit about yourself either internally or externally, work to learn how to step back a moment and remind yourself that what you are doing is a form of self-harm and not a fair or legitimate judgement on you as a person, and furthermore is not productive to your survival or well-being.
Even if you fuck something up, you can resolve to do better in the future, you can tell yourself that you’re going to make this a learning experience, and even if you’ve made the same mistake 50 times already, telling yourself you’ll get it right someday if you just keep trying will always do you better than calling yourself an idiot and beating yourself up for not being able to get it right.
Take it from me, a lot of mental health shit is a product of your environment and personal history, and therefore you really don’t have the control over it that you need to get by without others’ help, but one thing you can have some control over is whether you’re going to be a friend to yourself or just another enemy, and if you want to survive, you’ve gotta strive to be in your own corner as best you can.
“Look into my eyes so you know what it’s like to live a life not knowing what a normal life’s like.”
Short Term 12 (2013)
dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
u know that feeling when you’ve just showered, you get in to bed, ur room is clean and tidy and u just feel safe and soft and everything is okay
I love my girlfriend and she deserves nothing but the best in life and I’d do anything to make sure she’s happy
Ever since we first met I’ve been wondering what I ever did to deserve gazing upon your perfect smile
just think about how grateful your future self will be if you keep going. how glad you will be for having worked so hard. it will all be worth it.
I needed this