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posted February 20, 2017 at 12:35am UTC tagged with
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"I babysat this six year old, and I was wearing shorts today..
and my scars were showing, I guess. He poked them and he said, "I know how those got there." I replied, "How?" He looked at me with a straight face and he said, 'I've seen them before. My big sister had them, and she said mean people put them on your body when they weren't nice to you, because when people are mean to you, you end up being mean to yourself. My big sister went away. I don't know where she went. Mommy said she's on a happy vacation somewhere, because she was too sad here. I miss her. Don't go on a vacation, please.'"
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a lot of my life
has been realizing that i would
cross oceans
for people who wouldn't
jump puddles for me
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Don't listen to the world, they say we're never gonna make it
Don't listen to your friends, they would've never let us start
& Don't listen to the voices in your head
Listen to your heart
♥
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Format by destabilise.
You’re itching to be on your own.
You don’t want anybody telling you what time
you have to be in at night or how to raise your baby.
You’re going to leave your mother’s
big comfortable house and she won’t stop you,
because she knows you too well.
But listen to what she says:
When you walk out of my door,
don’t let anybody raise you — you’ve been raised.
You know right from wrong.
In every relationship you make,
you’ll have to show readiness
to adjust and make adaptations.
Remember, you can always come home.
You will go home again when the world
knocks you down — or when you fall down
in full view of the world.
But only for two or three weeks at a time.
Your mother will pamper you and
feed you your favorite meal of red beans and rice.
You’ll make a practice of going home
so she can liberate you again — one of the greatest gifts,
along with nurturing your courage,
that she will give you.
Be courageous, but not foolhardy.
Walk proud as you are.
— maya Angelou, Letter to my Younger Self