note to self: i’ll be there for you, always
written june 6, 2021. Photo by Kristine Cinate on Unsplash I have always looked for myself in other people. I think the idea was that they would somehow hold the pieces of me that I felt were missing. That maybe, if I wrapped my identity up in theirs enough, we would somehow make a whole person. It's not healthy to live like this, but I did it anyway — burning through relationships and searching for something I couldn't quite name. It was never enough, not to be myself, but it was never enough to latch my identity to other people, either. I got close, several times — I thought I had reached the pinnacle of self discovery. I thought I had completed myself. But in the end, relying on other people to help build yourself is never a viable way to do things. It's only recently that I've started to become comfortable with the idea of being enough, as I am, on my own. Several years ago, in this same position, I would have searched for another person to attach my identity onto,...
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aaaactually, just so you know, it's google reader that's being retired. I've searched around and stuff, and as far as I can tell, GFC will still be around to follow through your blogger dashboard, at least for now. but if you use google reader for post updates, that's going away and bloglovin' is a faaantastic solution (not to mention a lot of people are switching to using that anyway). so yeah, it's a little confusing, but that's what I've found.
ReplyDeleteps--I went and followed you on bloglovin'. (:
Oh, I hope they're not making it go away!! I love the followers gadget. :( People aren't being nice to me, lately, taking away my favorite things...
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