faronmckenzie:

Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals and self-worth.

and also my dad’s a gynecologist and immediately prescribed me medication. i got out of bed in the morning and picked up the anti-biotics. i’m so lucky that i didn’t even have to go to the hospital. and i’m so lucky my parents are able to afford health care for me. so many people don’t have health care. and when they go through awful pain like this they either let it die out by itself or have to pay out of pocket which is really hard for a lot of people to do. health is such a privilege in this country. it shouldn’t be but it is, and i’m so lucky to be privileged enough to have it. and to know that my pain is temporary. all i have to worry about is the pain– not the cost, not how i’m going to get the medication, nothing. just the pain. i’m so lucky and i feel very grateful. 

so i got a UTI for the first time (probably because i had unprotected sex a few nights ago and didn’t pee afterwards) (normally i pee but he left my house at 3am and i was so tired and had my first class the next morning) anyway that’s not the point. i woke up last night in the middle of the night and had to pee and it was the MOST painful thing. it literally felt like peeing fire. it was terrible. and then i felt the worst burning sensation for hours afterwards and couldn’t fall back asleep. and i was laying in my bed feeling terrible pain i thought about how lucky i am to be healthy. and i thought about the people out there that have chronic illness and chronic pain. and they live their lives feeling the pain and they can’t do anything about it. i am so lucky to go throughout my day to day life without being in pain. or without watching someone i love go through a pain like that. i prayed a lot last night and am going to continue to send out my prayers to those suffering. 

neworleanswife:

“I found the Muse in myself. And I loved Her fiercely.”

— Annie Finch, from Among the Goddesses: An Epic; “Muse-Goddess,”

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