Trying to Thrive, Volume 30: Know Yourself
Positive, I guess you can call me that
A Pioneer
The Trouble5hooter
An ArchITect
A Fixed Scorpion
Rising mutable earth
Emotions in the Lion
However,
I am more than that
I am an artist
I am a mathematician
I am a writer
I am a sister
I am a care-taker
I am a feminist
I am one of a kind
There’s only one me in this entire world
How can you put me into one description?
I can be mixed differently
There might be a higher concentration in one formula
You might need to heat me in a different temperature
I am not the same person all the time
What a bore and poor use of my skills
Negativity gets old
9 months in
Do you realize that?
Empathy to struggle
Reminders of self-care
Loving yourself is the first step to true love
So
Create boundaries to fishers
Save kind words in the evening
To shower your skin with kind words
To pamper your limbs with exercise
To nourish your soul with healthy meals
I can’t always give you validation
I need me too
Flashlights and candles are different
I light the way for others
I might light the way for myself
I know myself
I aint tryna create imagery
I’m just tryna to connect
Don’t care what you studied
Don’t care about your subscriptions
Degrees don’t have value anymore
I don’t comment on formulas
I care about the details
I wanna see the raw data
I take things at face value
It’s not that I’m distrustful
I just wanna learn, grow myself
She has to die first
To really showcase her full potential
How encouraging is it to tell someone
They need to burn, fail, die, and be in shreds
In order to succeed
How do I get motivation from that?
Obstacles vs opportunities
I guess I care more about the opportunities
How do you know if you worked hard?
How do you know if you did your best?
How do you know if you did everything you could?
How do you know yourself?
Are we all that different?
Not really
Inside we are the same
We have the same dreams and desires
The approach and details may differ
But we just want to be loved
Who am I to say?
What the f- do I know?
I am observer
I collect details
In a crowd, I usually don’t stand out
This used to bother me
Not anymore
I am okay with being in the background
I don’t need to be recognized
“I've always been me I guess I know myself”