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25. The Importance of Resurrecting Pain.
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This week, I found myself wholly inspired after reading a quote by Ehime Ora. She speaks of readdressing subdued pain by giving it a place to live – separate from your body. I think I was most moved by Ora’s words as she managed to articulate something I have been working on recently –…
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24. The romanticisation of suffering.
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TW: Self harm. Something that’s been on my mind for a while, is how struggle is poised as romantic. The idea of being troubled is glorified through all kinds of media – music, film, books etc. To impressionable, underdeveloped minds, seeing this is damaging as it forges a distortion of reality – aesthetically encouraging…
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23. Break from what has shaped you, so you can begin shaping yourself.
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The single best thing I’ve done for myself was decide I deserve to be of a happy mind. If you want to see something happen for yourself, its no-good hoping if you have no intention of putting things in place to fulfil those hopes. Dealing with it once you get there will never work,…
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22. The reason I began journaling.
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Two and a half years ago, I made the decision to start journaling, but I’d tried the whole “dear diary” thing before and could never commit. Aside from essays, this was the only other form of writing I began to find annoying. It was the act of gathering whatever diary I had, a pen,…