[Image ID: Four black-and-white comics composed of four panels each, depicting a stylized long-haired person with a small leafy sprout from their head going about their day. Text reads:
“I took a shower late last night. As I stood there, I thought about the next morning. ‘I have to get up at a normal time. I can’t stay in bed all morning again. I need to get up tomorrow morning. I need to because it shouldn’t be hard. I’ll feel pathetic if I don’t. WHY DO I STRUGGLE WITH SOMETHING SO EASY?’
That’s when I felt like I heard a voice say: ‘Don’t do it out of guilt, do it for yourself. Do it for your plants that need the sun. Do it for the coffee. Do it for your cat, who just wants to cuddle. Do it for all the things you have yet to create. Do it because you know how much better you’ll feel when you do. Your struggle is already hard and your burden is already heavy. Don’t start your fight by pressing knives to your throat.’
I slowly realized I’d been starting my mornings with verbal abuse. And how that self-harm had invalidated what small accomplishments I made.
I got up this morning. It was still hard. But I got up this morning and I did it for myself.” Signature: MK/RET '20. End ID.]
[id: four simple drawings of a pair of yellow cats with blue line art. they are leaning their heads together with a heart above them, napping together while holding hands, laying side by side with their legs in the air and their eyes on each other, and tucked into bed asleep in each others arms /end id]
![shi-saa:
“June 11, 1930
Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931 [volume 4]
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