when you’re a child and you stay up past your bedtime you get punished by your parents, when you’re an adult and you stay up too late you just get punished by the ghosts and spirits and demons and such
self-flagellation and self-bullying are all bad motivators for change BTW. it can be hard to escape from a spiral but genuinely u have to be nice to urself or nothing will change
you have to take care of yourself and not punch yourself down because you feel like you ‘deserve it’. if you feel like the world is against you, you should at least be on your own side while you work through things.
[ID: 3 green leaves with text stamped on them. They say “It’s so hot and the sky’s so blue”, “I want people to know me”, “but it’s so hard to tell them”. ]
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“araya rasdjarmrearnsook, reading for male and female corpses, 1998 [top] and the dinner with cancer I, 1993 [bottom]
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