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i stumbled upon this today while i was trying to get to katie's live journal. this from asforthephotos (couldn't remember the html for the lj tag):
When all else fails, wash your hands and let the dirt from today become a particle of what we know as trash, mistakes. Let it float away, wave goodbye, and let it become your smile. When all else fails, write a letter to yourself. Tell all your secrets and reach deep within. Read them until you have them written on your face, breathe them until you aren't ashamed. Swallow them whole, without the cracks, without the missing pieces and the dripping sweat of things remembered; reasons to hide who you are.
When all else fails raise your glass to imperfections, count them if you want, and place them in row next to the perfect person, and smile because that's how much more knowledge someday you'll have. And maybe you'll have to make the same mistake twice before your brain fits it perfectly as a new reason to seek out hope.
When all else fails, pretend you're good enough to be something, and one day you might actually walk the path you planned. When everything changes and everything fades, tell yourself it’s supposed to happen that way, and you'll get through; but when lying fails, tell the truth. But don’t tell yourself you're only human, because we can be so much more. Break down the barriers, be more than just outlines and beating hearts and veins that you can only feel when life is running low. Be one with everything and maybe one day you'll find your way into everything possible; you'll be the essence for everything that was once just barely here; give life, not a reason to be any less than it.
i've been ignoring you ell jay. i'm sorry. i hope this jewel that i stumbled on helps make it better.
When all else fails, wash your hands and let the dirt from today become a particle of what we know as trash, mistakes. Let it float away, wave goodbye, and let it become your smile. When all else fails, write a letter to yourself. Tell all your secrets and reach deep within. Read them until you have them written on your face, breathe them until you aren't ashamed. Swallow them whole, without the cracks, without the missing pieces and the dripping sweat of things remembered; reasons to hide who you are.
When all else fails raise your glass to imperfections, count them if you want, and place them in row next to the perfect person, and smile because that's how much more knowledge someday you'll have. And maybe you'll have to make the same mistake twice before your brain fits it perfectly as a new reason to seek out hope.
When all else fails, pretend you're good enough to be something, and one day you might actually walk the path you planned. When everything changes and everything fades, tell yourself it’s supposed to happen that way, and you'll get through; but when lying fails, tell the truth. But don’t tell yourself you're only human, because we can be so much more. Break down the barriers, be more than just outlines and beating hearts and veins that you can only feel when life is running low. Be one with everything and maybe one day you'll find your way into everything possible; you'll be the essence for everything that was once just barely here; give life, not a reason to be any less than it.
i've been ignoring you ell jay. i'm sorry. i hope this jewel that i stumbled on helps make it better.