Enough thinking! Time to do something about this!
Sitting here brooding forever won't get me anywhere.
Regretting what happened in the past won't change anything.
All I can do is keep my head high.
This is the beginning of "The Real Me."
-Yukino
"Kare Kano" by Masami Tsuda
Sitting here brooding forever won't get me anywhere.
Regretting what happened in the past won't change anything.
All I can do is keep my head high.
This is the beginning of "The Real Me."
-Yukino
"Kare Kano" by Masami Tsuda
"It's over. I can't keep holding on. In an awful flash, I see the next years spinning out ahead of me. The same old story, the same damn routine. Every time I think I drag my expectations down to meet him, he finds a way to fall short and break my heart just a little bit more.
I can't do this anymore.
I take a breath, feeling the air slip through my system in a slow wash of calm. I can just let him go.
I'm not naive enough to think it could ever be that easy, but when has anything in my life come that way?
This is how it starts: you make the decision, and the rest comes after.
So I decide. No more.
From now on, he doesn't owe me a single thing.
I'll get by because I want to...no more fooling around, no more trying to make him care.
But if he doesn't owe me anything, then I don't owe him a damn thing either.
He's not my father anymore. He hasn't earned the right.
I struggle to my feet and stretch, feeling the stiff ache in every limb. I'm so tired I could curl up and sleep right here on the ground, but instead, I take my things and start to walk. Steady, this time."
-Jolene
"The Anti-Prom" by Abby McDonald
I can't do this anymore.
I take a breath, feeling the air slip through my system in a slow wash of calm. I can just let him go.
I'm not naive enough to think it could ever be that easy, but when has anything in my life come that way?
This is how it starts: you make the decision, and the rest comes after.
So I decide. No more.
From now on, he doesn't owe me a single thing.
I'll get by because I want to...no more fooling around, no more trying to make him care.
But if he doesn't owe me anything, then I don't owe him a damn thing either.
He's not my father anymore. He hasn't earned the right.
I struggle to my feet and stretch, feeling the stiff ache in every limb. I'm so tired I could curl up and sleep right here on the ground, but instead, I take my things and start to walk. Steady, this time."
-Jolene
"The Anti-Prom" by Abby McDonald
"I think most people that have a lot of success early in their careers don’t see what they do as “work”—I would make art whether or not anyone was paying me to do it. If you can see your career as your calling more than your job, it’s easy to devote your life to it.
-Jessica Hische from Dylan's interview on Rookiemag.com
-Jessica Hische from Dylan's interview on Rookiemag.com
"Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true...to the man you wish to become.Trying to guess what people wish of you will only lead to chaos, I think. You cannot please them all..."
-Sazed
"The Well of Ascension" by Brandon Sanderson
-Sazed
"The Well of Ascension" by Brandon Sanderson
"I think men haven't even begun to tell the stories of their bodies. Many men have enormous, unexpressed grief, loneliness, and fear of failure. When we don't have a place where boys can cry or express doubt, amiguity, or tenderness, that lack of expression can turn into violence. My father was very raging and violent. He had no language for his fragility or grief or vulnerability. He had his fists and belts and hist abusive words.
Anti-violence activist Tony Porter call it "the man-box," the socialization that stops men from being free to express their emotions. Breaking out of the man-box--the liberation of men and their bodies and emotions--is directly related to the liberation of women's bodies.
...After performances of Emotional Creature, men approach me to say that they're deeply emotional but have no space for their feelings..."
-Eve Ensler, Yes! Magazine, Fall 2012
Anti-violence activist Tony Porter call it "the man-box," the socialization that stops men from being free to express their emotions. Breaking out of the man-box--the liberation of men and their bodies and emotions--is directly related to the liberation of women's bodies.
...After performances of Emotional Creature, men approach me to say that they're deeply emotional but have no space for their feelings..."
-Eve Ensler, Yes! Magazine, Fall 2012