Wanted to reach us, to touch us.
Give me your tired, your so very, very tired. I couldn't take this, didn't know what I had thought I could accomplish coming here. I couldn't look at another one. Another dead person clawing for my face.
Kayra gibi hissettirdi :')
It’s a daily fight with my brain
There's nothing you can do to save me
I have no face, I have no heart
I don’t remember my name
I feel like I have been replaced
You are in my place
You are the only killer tonight
You shouldn’t have crossed this line
I found an underground exit
Please do not spread it
That's the only way to disappear from here
That's all I need
“I almost didn’t realize I was still wearing it,” he remarks. “I guess that’s the thing about masks … you wear one long enough, you eventually forget it isn’t your real face.”
The tension!
The way she's challenging him is starting to get him all hot and bothered... she's literally in his lap. On his lap, challenging him, mocking him as he just sits there and takes it.
It takes every goddamn bit of willpower he has to not flip her on her back and just ravish her right here and now.
"And I don't care," he says, each word dripping with anger. "I wanted you then, and I want you now. You're mine, mine completely from this moment onwards..."
she squints her eyes
"And if I refuse again?"
He leans forward and gets close enough to her that he's just inches away from her face.
Just looking into her eyes is making him crazy, she's not even backing down even though he's threatening her.
"I'll drag you to my room, and I'll take what's mine anyways..."
I feel out of my skin
I no longer recognize the face I see in the mirror every morning
My room is a mess
I want to sleep
And my ear hurts from headphones
The song is on in my brain 🧠
And my feet are numb
Wong (2020) operationally defined the resilient mindset in terms of six attributes;
•Be tough mentally in order to face a competitive and difficult world (Scarfe & Baxter, n.d.) We need control, commitment, challenge, and confidence to face adversity (Gucciardi, 2020).
•Be responsible for adapting to each difficult situation with ethics and flexibility (Arslan & Wong, 2022).
•Appreciate what you still have in spite of the losses. Appreciate the gift of being alive and the goodness in the world (Jans-Beken & Wong, 2019).
•Practice mindfulness by accepting life at it is and embracing life with openness without judgement in order to have the clarity of mind to do the right thing (Moore, 2022).•Practice the meaning mindset (Wong, 2012) by looking for what is beautiful, good, and meaningful even in difficult situations.
•Believein a better future through faith, hope, and love (Wong, 2023a. 2023b). According to Hanson (2020), a resilient mind is defined as "constructing a conscious, deliberate alignment of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual resources to effectively engage with a specific situation."
Destruction in the face of progress is not only possible, but an efficient way to get rid of excess.
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When they got to my arms, Loria had the audacity to laugh at me. All the servants tittered as she measured my bicep, then held up the measurements for the room to see.
“Warrior you are not.”
My one eye twitched with annoyance. I was half-tempted to transform into a saber-toothed tiger and roar in Loria’s face.
Like a smart warrior, I did what I could in the situation.
I stood naked and did nothing.
You didn’t mess with middle-aged women holding pins and measuring tapes. The danger was palpable.
It wasn’t their fault that I was obsessed with the little princess. However, it was their fault that they’d been touching me when I belonged to her.
What the actual fuck? I fought the urge to snarl in frustration as I raked my hands over my face. I didn’t belong to the princess. I’d never even fucking kissed her.
So why were her lush lips and long white hair all I could focus on?
She stretched her arms toward him. He pulled her in against him so hard that she stiffened on instinct. Then she relaxed, because Nezha was so warm, so solid, and hugging him was such a wonderful feeling that she just wanted to bury her face into his uniform and stand there for a very long time.
“However, I also must order you to attend a weekly psychological meeting with me to work on homicidal impulses. As a war general, you must curb them if you are to be successful.” Auntie’s exuberant smile said she wasn’t actually concerned about curbing any impulses.
I was half-worried that Sadie would become more intense if she met with Auntie.
The little alpha said nothing, just glared back at the woman with a stony expression.
“I have to disagree. It wasn’t homicidal. It seemed logical,” Aran said loudly from beside Sadie.
The blue-haired boy put a serious expression on his face, but it was clear what he was doing.
Unfortunately, Auntie fell for it. “Very well. Aran is also ordered to attend my sessions with Sadie. Anyone else showing signs of sociopathy?”
The entire room stayed dead silent,
Like a little kitten with claws.
I knew from having five sisters that if I ever dared tell her she was cute, her saber-toothed beast would likely rip my face off.
Women didn’t like to be told how adorable they were. Which was too damn bad because, from my towering perspective, she was tiny.
“I have been so many things. On every continent on Earth. And yet I have never found the life for me. I am resigned to being this way for ever. There will never be a life that I truly want to live for ever. I get too curious. I get too much of a yearning to live another way. And you don’t need to make that face. It’s not sad. I am happily in limbo.”
Cool pine-scented air breezed across his face; the deserted stretch of road seeming almost unnaturally quiet - as if the landscape was holding its breath, waiting. Now that his heart had resumed a more normal pace, he was surprised to find that he still felt unsettled, even anxious.
“ I can meet that many people on Instagram in an hour.’
‘Exactly. Not healthy! Our brains can’t handle it. Which is why we crave face-to-face communication more than ever. ”