i think, people should be rewarded for the mere act of breathing through the day, breathing through life. for dodging verbal bullets…“dodging,” that sounds so cowardly, when it really is the bravest thing  person could do, keeping things together when you have all the permission to fall apart, stay alive when words are designed to kill…the spirit at least. funny ho we are told to understand others, have patience (which are all great virtues, by the way), in tagalog “palampasin mo na lang…pasok sa isang tenga, labas sa kabila…”), how we often indirectly learn to hold back, because keeping quiet is the only way to keep the peace. no one ever teaches us that we have the right to self preservation.

oh well…good morning friends! here’s to a safer, kinder day… :)

(via misswallflower)