i'm a simple girl: i see sunlight on the water, i find god
Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. A good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. Btw
Helen Okoroafor and Nathan Nicol for Pap Korea ‘Ecce Populus’ May 2023
Photography by Cesare Fraticelli
2023 has been a disaster so far
what the anti-ageing 30 step skincare preemptive botox girlies haven’t worked out yet is that youthfulness is an inner glow that comes from playing and laughing and losing yourself to the present moment
you can be in a perfectly preserved skin sack but if you don’t smile or play in the sunshine then you’re ageing yourself faster than any of us with our laugh lines and full lives
no other person on this planet was made for you, they were made for themselves. love is all about choices. no one is going to be perfect for you, and i think we need to stop raising everyone on the belief that someone out there, just one other person in the whole world, was “made for you” because it isn’t true. no one is made for you, besides you. other people belong to themselves. if you want to make it work with someone, it’s about hard work, understanding, compassion, communication, and choice
i almost never believe white people when they tell me they are Buddhists unless they are a very specific breed of former carnie/meth head who got their life together, and now works at a gas station/Dollar General and spends their evenings smoking on the porch of their single wide in comfortable silence. you know the type i am talking about. those bitches are escaping samsara and they know it.
