romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering
finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813
i just wanna say that even if you have degenerative diseases, life can still get better with age. i don’t know how long i have left and i just seem to keep getting sicker, but im steadier and happier and more secure in myself than ever.
i started my 20s healthy and my 30s deathly ill and i’m much happier now. i wouldn’t even trade health for everything else i’ve gained since.
contrary to the popular misconception, health isn’t everything or even the most important thing. it’s good to have! but you can make a happy life as a sick person, in whatever time you have
really touched that this is starting to reach more people, and the replies and tags and comments are 💙
