lilyjoon:

I think being in Paris for an extended amount of time makes me realize how racist the idea of tourism and traveling really is. I can’t speak for the Middle East wholly but I can say most people refuse to go to Iran because it’s “dirty,” the people are “mean,” “they hate Americans,” there’s so much crime, etc. etc. 

Literally all of that can be said about Paris but people kill themselves to come to this city, and they excuse all of the inconvenience, the dirtiness (probably one of the dirtiest and most polluted cities I’ve ever seen tbh), the rudeness, the pickpocketing rates, and continue with their romanticism.

Both places obviously carry their own beauty and their own flaws, but it’s ridiculous how many excuses we’re able to make for Europe and how many justifications we have to make for literally anywhere else

eearth:

You gotta find something that moves you, each and every day. It could be a song, a quote, a book, a tv show, a painting, a person, a landscape… anything that speaks to your core, anything that shakes the dust off your soul. You gotta remember what a miracle this life is. You gotta keep reminding yourself. 

1. Do not hate them for it. They are on a journey too.
2. Understand that sometimes you will be a bandage caressing a temporary wound or you will be a pinnacle of permanency rooted deeply in their heart. Accept that you do this to people too.
3. Do not step on your feet trying to find a rhythm you are not meant to follow.
4. Do not let it harden you: continue to nurture, continue to love.
5. People use words as anchors to latch onto bits of you and when they leave remind yourself that the sea never bled itself dry because a ship left it.
6. Write the nastiest letter and burn it.
7. Yes, they may have illuminated pieces of you that you were unaware existed. But now you do and they are not the last person to remind you.
8. Dizzy yourself with everything you love, like dancing in the greenhouse to horrid pop songs or reading Haruki Murakami.
9. Set all that anger ablaze, you are wasting your time sifting through it.
10. Internalize the fact that you were still breathing before you met them.
11. Forgive them.

what to do when people leave  (via excrutiate)