Please ❤, in which I ask you to love and believe in yourself. ❤
If you’re neurodivergent, justice-heavy, empathy-heavy, introspective, self-accountable, I wish you could understand how desperately the world needs you, how badly it needs you to self-validate and to believe in your ability to affect the things you believe in, and in your right to do that.
I’ve been uniquely situated to witness the ease and abandon with which evil/stupid, essentially always the dual entity, goes hamfisted at what it insists it’s entitled to.
It does this while justice-heavy is still asking itself if it “deserves” to make art.
Please make art. Please believe in yourself.
It only sounds trite, if you don’t yet understand that all of the awfuls of this world are due to the fact that evil has no desire to regulate itself, while good often doesn’t understand, that it isn’t infringing on the right of anyone else to love and believe in yourself, to hold your head up and to hold yourself in your own highest regard; as though you haven’t earned it enough.
You don’t need to earn self love.
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Evil doesn’t love itself, and it permits itself to commit all manner of awful en-route to fabricating a persona that it can almost just inhabit, I always draw a comparison to the ghosts in Harry Potter, when the food is rotten putrid stinking enough that they can just almost taste it.
It grants itself permission to do absolutely anything, no matter how repugnant, en route to that elusive, putrid farce.
Grant yourself love, and grant yourself permission, and grant yourself belief.
You, who are self-accountable, by nature.
You, who demand standards of yourself in how you treat others.
You are the vibrant, the sweet, in the perfect blush of fresh radiant, nourishing,
Your soul, you:
You are the feast.
