My Brother Cracked My Rib One Morning And Gave Me Half Of His Orange In The Evening.

My brother cracked my rib one morning and gave me half of his orange in the evening.

I remember being younger and sometimes wishing to be a single child, to have all the attention and gifts and time but when he was away from home for the first time, I remember crying and stroking his side of the sofa as if blurting out my first wish- for him to be home, without thinking twice, without a shadow of doubt. Even the genie cried. Growing up with a sibling is like being the only people on a stranded boat, constantly figuring out how you can live with them and questioning how you could ever live without them.

One evening, in a fit of anger, I told him how I never wanted him to be my brother and he yelled that he didn't ask for it either. The air smelled like kerosene and my chest was filled with arsenic. I was raging and threw his favorite toy aeroplane down the window, 7 stories of guilt and shame. He cried all night and I wanted to cut off my right hand, the hand that hurt my baby brother. I didn't know if he was ever going to forgive me or even talk to me. The next morning at breakfast, he didn't look at me or say a word, I felt like my chest was about to explode and guilt clouded my vision. But then, I felt a hand quietly holding half of an orange my way.

The only people on a stranded boat. How do you live with them? How could you ever live without them?

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

Edit: I added a visualizer for this on my YouTube channel. Check it out here

11 Compliments That Aren’t About Physical Appearance

You light up the room

I like your voice

You inspire me

I love how passionate you are

You make the world a better place

You’re one of the bravest people I know

You make me comfortable to be myself

You’re an incredible friend

You have a really refreshing perspective

You are so smart

You are truly making a difference

— sossafetymag

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ultxian

4 years ago

DIY Session With The Fearsome Yiling Laozu

DIY session with the fearsome Yiling Laozu

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ultxian

3 years ago

Welcome back to me being inactive lol

Last month I got into Enhypen and started stanning them... Turns out they became my second ult really fast lmao

And here is my first fanart of Ni-ki because I like him a lot <3

This took me so much time because I am not familiar with his face and at first it wasn't looking like him at ALL. But with a lot of work I finally ended up having a nice-looking portrait of this funky vampire fella and I'm happy of how it turned out.

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ultxian

4 years ago

oh.

get okay with being some level of burden on others, seriously

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ultxian

4 years ago

oh this made my day

i like to think that one day lwj was worried baby sizhui was missing being around wwx and wq, because lwj isn’t anything like them, so he specifically went and found the most talkative disrespectful judgemental baby lan and was like please be friends with my son

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ultxian

4 years ago

do you think if I keep this "im gonna overwork myself so i don't have to think about my problems" thing going for enough time ill eventually be able to stop feeling entirely ಠಿ_ಠ

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