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Iâve been having a hard time lately and I really wanted to abandon the day but instead Iâm saying hello to the bus driver with pink puffy eyes Iâm letting tears fall freely onto the park bench Iâm staring despondently out the sandwich shop windowÂ
Itâs not about romanticizing your sadness. Itâs actually not about you at all. Itâs about the unusually colored pigeon and the dad and son throwing a football while they walk down the street and hearing Chaka Khanâs My Love is Alive blaring from a modded 2003 Honda civic that will, even if itâs just briefly, pull you out of the cave.
Allow your feelings to interact with the world. Find reminders of what life was, is, and can be beyond and within these feelings.Â
Go for a walk, enjoy the taste of your salty tears, and when youâre ready, lay down in the grass until youâre itchy enough to remember there are sensations other than this dull ache. Then buy yourself an impracticality large bottle of water. Maybe go see a movie by yourself.Â
May 4, 2024
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When youâre in a slump, youâre in a slump.
Let yourself feel things. The good and the bad. I welcome them like a visitor and I invite them at the pretend dinner table in my head and get to know them, and I try not to ask them why theyâre here. Why I feel things. I just let them be. Know that this will pass, just like a person visiting for a few nights and I try not to hold on to them when theyâre ready to leave (yes those feelings will pass). Sounds very clichĂ© but they do.
From my experience, the longer I fight the sadness/depression/slump, the longer it stays. Iâve learned just to take it day by day. This wouldnât be possible without months of therapy where it was revealed to me that Iâve been so hard on myself almost my entire life.
I also meditate every night for 15-20 minutes. I take this activity so seriously, just a few minutes to close my eyes and release the tension Iâve felt the whole day. I love staying still. I love to close my eyes and think of nothing. My drive will come back.
What also helps (for me) is taking a few minutes a day to go outside and letting the sun touch my skin. It feels so good. Listen to the birds. Listen to the traffic. Just observe your surroundings and remember that there is life outside you and you are a part of something big and eventually you get inspired by something. May it be small or big. It will come back to you.
Be gentle and kind to yourself <3
Apr 25, 2024
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I always try and focus on the little things a have control over. I know that may be easier said than done as I also struggle with getting out of sad moods. I love my friends because I can talk to them about this or just bullshit about stuff and I feel seen and loved. sometimes thatâs enough. I have also been going on walks recently even though the weather is lame. listening to the wind somehow seems to ground me. hope this helpsâ€ïžâ€ïž
Feb 2, 2025
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these past few days, I have dragged my tired carcass into the sun and plopped myself into the nearest body of water. Iâm lucky â I live near to a lot of accessible points of natural release, both in sand and in seaweed paper.
in recognition of my privilege, let me also acknowledge my humble suffering. i have lived in tiring grey coals of concrete and felt the abyss of constant chatter and gritty grey tear away at my flesh. i never said it would be easy, moving outside of what you know, but its always worth it. i am sooo depressed from November - Feb⊠why not do all the things Iâve wanted to do, in whatever capacity I can?
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Feb 28, 2025
Currently have three full pages in my notebook! I guess some might call this a gratitude journal LOL but itâs different when I do it.Â
My brother was telling me about this phenomenon called âtarget fixationâ. Itâs a panic reflex that happens when motorcyclists become fixated on a singular object, obstacle, hazard (e.g. a sharp curve on a winding road) and they will unconsciously steer in the direction of the thing theyâre trying to avoid because their hands follow their gaze which leads to accidents.Â
You will follow your gaze so be aware of where youâre looking. Train yourself to seek out pleasure and appreciation! Understanding where + what you derive pleasure from increases your capacity to enjoy things which in turn makes you a more interesting person (imo). I think itâs just as important self-knowledge as understanding your triggers/trauma. It is a daily willingness to be transformed by small things.
Sorry for lecturing but I want good things for all of you.
Xoxo,
meg
Mar 29, 2024
Forgive because this where I get a little ~woo woo~ but I think you should only wear necklaces that are imbued with a potent magical vibe⊠amulets only near the heart and throat
you can do whatever you want with earrings/rings but heed my warning about necklaces
Apr 20, 2024