hey, i made this post forever ago and i want you to know: i don’t feel lonely anymore. i think i’ll always carry a ribbon of loneliness through who i am ( shout-out mary oliver ) because i was alone during my most formative years, but the loneliness i carry with me isn’t an actual state of being — it’s a memory of being lonely, it’s a state of being i used to be intimate with, it’s a familiar feeling that doesn’t challenge my perceptions or beliefs about the world or myself. it’s the blanket i put over myself when i don’t know any better or i’m scared of better.
i don’t know when it happened, but it did. i hope and pray it’ll happen to all the lonely girls that see themselves in this post — you can put your loneliness down, it has a home with the thousands of other lonely girls. come by once in a while to honour it, but know that your loneliness can keep mine company while we go live our lives.