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by Rupi Kaur

our fuller selves are not off in the future they’re right here in the only moment that exists i don’t need fixing i will be searching for answers my whole life not because i’m a half-formed thing but because i’m brilliant enough to keep growing everything necessary to live a vivid life already exists in me

no one is qualified to decide your worth you wake up and live your life every day yours is the only opinion of you that matters

don’t sleep on the doormat of your potential waiting for things to happen when you could be the thing that happens

i’m not interested in a feminism that thinks simply placing women at the top of oppressive systems is progress - not your convenient figurehead

he says you’re opinionated as if it’s an insult to have ideas so big he chokes on the size of them - never be quiet

i want to leave this place knowing i did something with my body other than trying to make it look perfect