Lauren-this one is for you.
(Source: behaved)
Random thoughts. The comings and goings in my head. Just a place to jot them down, a place to release them into the world with no repercussions.
By Takanori Aiba, inventing little worlds like this is something I find deeply fascinating and could get lost into for an eternity. These look like that have been manipulated by tiny people for decades to form amazing architectural pieces.
“…the density of decoration and the rich stories of my works contain extraordinary times and spaces which differ from the bonsai world determined by plants physiology.”
To a friend who needs to hear the truth.
I think that maybe the people who are the most ready and willing to love are the ones that have a deep pit inside of their souls, and they desperately want to fill it. And as they look at the world around them, they watch movies and listen to songs that sing the praises of love. They take in the words that someone, somewhere has put down on paper, and they place an importance on those words. As if those words were the laws of the universe. As if finding that one person who loves you and the one person that you love, is the magical answer to everything. Maybe they aren’t looking for perfection. Maybe they aren’t looking for butterflies and rainbows and sunshine - not in a literal sense anyway. But, that is the feeling they are looking for, and so, when someone comes along, they create those things out of whatever material they are given. In an attempt to fill that pit, they accept less than what they deserve.
Maybe they accept someone who isn’t good for them. Maybe they are straight out abusive and mean and horrible. But, they convince themselves that if they love them enough, then they will change. Or, that if they love them enough that they are helping to ease their pain. Maybe they find someone who actually is truly in pain. So, they try to understand them and help them and work with them everyday. And in order to try to fill that hole, they focus themselves entirely on other people. Glancing at themselves occasionally to accept the blame for things they have never done. But, there is something that they have done wrong.
They have failed to love themselves. They have searched so tirelessly to see even one shred of beauty in another person, and they have held onto the smallest evidences that there could be something good and beautiful and pure and worthy in the other person, that they never see the overwhelming beautiful things in themselves.
So I want to say to you: STOP! Stop looking at other people and trying to help them and fix them. Stop fixating on what is good in them. Stop identifying with others.
Look at your own soul and heart. Help yourself. Fix yourself. Not that there is something wrong with you, but, you need to see all of the beauty that radiates from you to the people around you. Take time for you. It isn’t a selfish pursuit. Identify with yourself. They only real way to help other people is to be a strong person in your core.
The smile that you show to the world, turn that inside and show your heart. Your amazingness and beauty is so evident to all of the people who truly matter. If someone doesn’t see your beauty, it’s because they are not a strong person, it’s because they don’t value themselves enough to be confident when they are next to you.
You can’t fix the world, but you can take care of yourself.
You are amazing.
You are beautiful.
You are valued.
You are loved.
You are kind.
You are selfless.
You are trusting.
You are generous.
See the beauty within so that your smile can shine forth from a place of honesty.
I love you.
Jan-di: “I’ve been wanting to ask you something… Why me? I’m not pretty, and I don’t have money, a distinguished name, or anything. Why did you like me?”
Jun-pyo: “Because I have all that.”
Jan-di: “What?”
Jun-pyo: “Money, name, looks — I have all that. I don’t need that from you. All you have to be is Geum Jan-di.
Jun-pyo: “Because I have all that.”
Jan-di: “What?”
Jun-pyo: “Money, name, looks — I have all that. I don’t need that from you. All you have to be is Geum Jan-di.
Boys Over Flowers
(Even though this sounds a little arrogant, I would love for someone to say that to me. Just for someone to let me know that all I had to do was be exactly who I am.)
“All the people that I liked… they didn’t stay by my side.”
Ji Hoo (Boys Over Flowers)
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CARMAH