Uplifting - Blog Posts
I hope to be this kind of sibling when I'm older 🥹
This is for anyone who needs it! !!! Like me. I needed this after last week!!! 🫶♥️
I don't know who needs to hear this but
you are not too much, you are not a bother, you are not too clingy, you are not too little or too big!
You are you! And that's what makes you special
🎀
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A Bad Day Interrupted
A bad day, just like so many others lately. No matter how you tried, moments of actual contentment and joy never seemed to last quite long enough to be a mental break from everything. You have been severely depressed for little over a month, but it seems like you finally ran out of tears. Good, you hated making people worry about you.
Looking at the time on your phone, you are disappointed it isn't time to go home. Work isn't bad; the work is easily completed in time and you work with the nicest people you know. However, it is exhausting to consciously keep up the charade of being happy.
You are concerned for yourself. Nothing had happened, you just awoke one day and just been depressed since. On top of that, you are also anxious and self-abusing. Not physically, though the gnawing in your stomach reminds you that you are not eating as much as you probably should.
A lot of the abuse is mental; the thoughts in your head ripping you down to the lowest level of self-deprecation you have ever been. Words are weapons and they are inflicting so much pain.
You look at your phone as it buzzes. A message from your boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife/whomever. Upon opening, it is a small video clip of a panda cub sitting on a rock. It sneezes so hard it topples over and you can't help but chuckle, smiling a genuine smile for the first time all day.
They knew you were going through personal issues and were helping you look for a good therapist. Everday, they would find ways to show thier love in addition to texts and saying so. You feel guilty but accepted the extra affection, reciprocating the affection as best as you could.
One day at a time, with the love of your life making sure you make it through.
Because you would and have done the same for them.
Found this on the wall.
It says I'm proud of you ❤️
Then there's an arrow next to it saying.
'This wall convinced me to dump my abuser in 2019 thank you'
Inspirational guy
Eternal Promise
Choose what you want for yourself..
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
~ Mark Twain
the forever sky
Psa: your grades do not define you!! If you get a grade of D on your test, try to get a C next time. Just because you’re not good at testing, or your brain just can’t comprehend certain stuff, does not mean you are dumb or stupid. You are all valid and worthy no matter what grade you get. Better then your last score? Great! Amazing! Awesome! Then do even better next time. Even if that’s just one more percentage. Improvement is always amazing, even if it’s not a great score. Just know that’s just because you got a score of 60% that it does not define you or your worth. School tricks you to make you believe that your test scores define you. New flash, it doesn’t!! You’re so smart. And you can get through that test/quiz. I can promise you that.
-Rose xx
(This was mostly just to lift me up bc I failed my ap human geo test and I’m close to a D in the class lmao)
The Orange
At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist.
The Orange and other poems - Wendy Cope
This morning I was walking through Manhattan, head down, checking directions, when I looked up to see a fruit truck selling lychee, two pounds for five bucks, and I had ten bucks in my pocket! Then while buying my bus ticket for later that evening I witnessed the Transbridge teller’s face soften after she had endured a couple unusually rude interactions in front of me as I kept eye contact and thanked her. She called me honey first (delight), baby second (delight), and almost smiled before I turned away. On my way to the Flatiron building there was an aisle of kousa dogwood—looking parched, but still, the prickly knobs of fruit nestled beneath the leaves. A cup of coffee from a well-shaped cup. A fly, its wings hauling all the light in the room, landing on the porcelain handle as if to say, “Notice the precise flare of this handle, as though designed for the romance between the thumb and index finger that holding a cup can be.” Or the peanut butter salty enough. Or the light blue bike the man pushed through the lobby. Or the topknot of the barista. Or the sweet glance of the man in his stylish short pants (well-lotioned ankles gleaming beneath) walking two little dogs. Or the woman stepping in and out of her shoe, her foot curling up and stretching out and curling up.
The Book of Delights - Ross Gay
Is sorrow the true wild?
And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that?
For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if that is joy?
The Book of Delights -- Ross Gay
THE UPLIFT SERIES
A positive playlist series curated for whichever phase in your self-love journey you might be going through.
The Uplift I: Loneliness Let these songs be your reminder that even times of loneliness don’t last forever.
The Uplift II: Insecurity When you’re feeling a little insecure and could use some reassurance that everything will, as a matter of fact, be okay.
The Uplift III: Perseverance You might be facing some difficulties, but does that mean you’ll throw in the towel and give up?
The Uplift IV: Growth That feeling when you realise that you’ve come out stronger after a difficult and challenging situation.
The Uplift V: Confidence Are you ready to take on the world?