Why is it that when things are not going well and the chosen coping strategy is taking your mind off things (also known as ignoring the situation) and hoping it will get better/go away, the only outcome seems to be things getting worse?
Why can’t things magically get better instead? That would be so much nicer for everyone, don’t you think?
| — | Carl Jung |
| — | Carl Jung |
I love this for so many reasons. It sounds cold at first glance, but I don’t read it that way at all. I think it’s something that women should be taught from the time they’re little girls rather than the fairy tale “Prince Charming” crap we regurgitate and force down their throats. The truth is you don’t need someone to save you…no one can build a world for you to be happy in except for YOU.
Instead of worrying about finding your soul mate, go out and find your passion. Get an education or say to hell with school and gain some life experience. Get a job you hate then quit it, take 15 more jobs you hate and leave them all until you find the one that makes you set your alarm clock an hour early because you can’t wait to go in. Travel. Try new things. Get hurt and then pick yourself up again. Make mistakes and learn from them. Discover your flaws and find a way to turn them into strengths. Tell the truth, even if it could cost you everything. Ask for and give forgiveness. Build a circle of friends you can lean on and trust but also spend an uncomfortable period of time alone…enough so that you’re forced to hear your own heart without the distraction and influence of other people. Build the world you want to exist in first, then find someone to join you there.
This is AMAZING
Especially the words under the picture
“The real struggle…is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for her life to begin.”—
Caroline Knapp (via ignitelight)
(via igniteafirewithin)
| — | Jim Butcher |
