“With every act of self care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side; each day I am more and more on my side.”
— Susan Weiss Berry
When I was 17/18 I used to fill out notebooks with my thoughts cause I didn’t have the skills to make the art I wanted to unless they were in the form of photographs and when I used to write, I used to daydream about passing on knowledge to somebody who needed it.
I’m in a constant battle with feeling like I lost myself and my way and feeling like I could only TRY to have the mindset that I had 3 years ago–and that’s not enough for me. Being in the space I’m currently in makes me feel like a ghost or a shell.
Like I’m taking up just enough space to exist but not be useful to myself.
Just today, my soul was really begging for some guidance n direction and I came across some old notebooks by chance and reading thru them gave me so much peace and I feel grateful to my younger self for writing all of my ideas down because I feel like they were written for me–as if I knew at some point I’d feel like I lost myself and it gives me the greatest hope that one day I could feel like myself again.
I highly encourage everybody to write their ideas and their thoughts down everyday because my writing is saving my life right now.
I’m 20 years old right now and I think what I really want out of life atm is to leave my phone in Brooklyn and fly to a tropical country for a whole year. I dont want to know whats happening in anybodys lives, I dont want to run into anybody I know, I dont want to know whats happening in the world, I dont want to talk to my family. Nothing. I don’t want to be by myself, but I also know I wont find peace in the people that I’ve surrounded myself by–by choice or circumstance.
Andy Warhol interview (1964)
Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976), Masques et phantasmes, 1929. Oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm.
Artist: Dorothy Wong
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