Some Things

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tumblr is hard. i want to reply to your post but ANYWAY I’ll just do this fancy reblog nonsense. I don’t know if I’ve ever told you this but my life motto is: eat the strawberries. It’s essentially a quote from this horrible story about a boy that gets chased by wolves. He runs and he runs, and eventually he trips and falls down a hill at the bottom of which are these huge pointy rocks. To try and save himself, he grabs onto a strawberry patch. The boy faces death from above and below; there is no escape from either the wolves on top of the hill or the rocks waiting at the bottom. So what does he do? He eats the strawberries. I feel like I am always “holding onto the strawberries” before the paralyzing task of making a choice that must be made. 

Is there advice in all of this? Probably not. What I’m saying is take your pleasures when you can. That’s what I’ve always thought what that story was trying to say. And yet I think there’s a bit more to it than that. It’s living life by the moment, yes, but it’s also realizing that you can’t just stay in the same inertia stuffing your face with gratuitous pleasures. 

In the end I you’ll figure out where you want to be and who you want to be with. I think the part you’re struggling the most with is how to make that choice, and how to trust yourself to live with the decisions you make.