Cindy

“Sometimes you have to fall hard enough for it to hurt to know when to pick yourself up. You can't start to put yourself back together if you don't even know that you're broken.”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

“I want my work to be good. I want to like it. This is the only part that has anything to do with me. I can’t make it have an "impact" on anybody else. This doesn’t mean I can’t hope it has one, but I can’t do anything to guarantee it, or even to cause it. All I can do is make something as good as I can make it (this is the sort of fact that’s both banal and profound), and promise myself that I’ll never try to publish anything I myself don’t think is good or finished. I used to have far more complex and sophisticated ways of thinking about "impact," but they always left me with my forehead against the wall.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes, this is my busy -
and I will not apologize for it.”
― Brittin Oakman

“I am not angry,
I am not sad,
I have no questions,
I need no answers,
For, I am numb.

I can’t cry,
I can’t smile,
I can’t laugh,
I can’t giggle,
For, I feel numb.

I don’t argue,
I don’t think,
I don’t talk,
I can’t fight,
For, I feel numb and
Somehow, I just know
Being ‘numb’ is worse
Than anything else!”
― Jyoti Patel