I rise and I fall

It took me a good few months to decide on a tattoo for my left thigh. I chose a phoenix because I felt it reflected my experiences with depression. I have frequently fallen down in life due to my depression or from being hurt by others but no matter what I somehow rise again. I don't believe depression will ever leave me and I don't believe I will never be hurt again, yet I know that I will find ways to cope and become stronger every time.

Each year I become a better version of myself. I am always healing and growing. More importantly I am able to pick myself up after every setback.

Eventually I will be unstoppable.

F x

Lone Wolf

It's hard to ever feel a part of anything when so many times people come and go, and sometimes when they go they never come back. 

There are people who can take so much from you - your hopes, your trust, your spirit, everything that you are. And then there are people who give you so much more than you'd ever expect. 

Yet for all the happiness that one person or more may give you, it's only you at the end of the day. It's your heart and mind that you are responsible for and to look towards others for your sense of worth is a pointless desire. 

Imagine if you loved yourself so much that you could go solo without any acceptance from others, that you could be such an unstoppable force in a world full of people seeking love and approval from anyone and everyone. To be like that is so rare. 

You can always be a part of a pack but you will only ever have yourself. 

Don't follow others. 

Be a lone wolf. 

Be yourself.

F x