This brings me unbelievable joy

To experience love you need passion to burn bright

And to fuel passion you need to care, so so much

But caring so much invites pain

Pain is not inherently negative either

It doesn't feel pleasant, but it's definitive proof that you care

So keep feeling pain, keep caring, keep loving

❤️

I will watch as my ambitions tear myself apart

Since I will be reborn again, and again

As many times as it takes

For the day I stop caring, I will also stop loving

And when my ambitions collapse, my heart will simply stop

For it needs to go both ways to keep beating

love and pain

I will not shield my heart from pain, for that also prevents the human experience

I will keep it free, like a raptor on a falconers arm, ready to be passionate, either lovingly or evily

I know it is strong enough to handle being broken, melted, or dropped

#strong #getbackup

My heart's place is my sleeve, it catches and gives the most love and compassion that way

But it is also bruised and bumped around being there

But I care far too deeply to let it retreat to its encasing

For there is no greater pain than simply not caring

#livefree #heart

I want to be scared, terrified, horrified even, but it will all pass, maybe even be funny one day

I want to be content, glad, ecstatic, and manic

I want to experience everything that the world has to offer, on all spectrums and intensities, and maybe even further than that

Since the world is so beautiful, ugly, organized, and chaotic

You'll never know what the next moment will bring, hours or days can be spent predicting but you will never truly know

Or you can invest that time and energy into experiencing what is happening

I want to live with eyes open

Like, watching a movie and just waiting for it to end so you can say you watched it, but that defeats the whole purpose of even watching a movie which is to enjoy it

I want to be so enthralled by one specific thing rather than having interests everywhere and being pulled apart

Not some obscure concept of what a theoretical account of some 'generic' person being alive may encounter, REAL LIFE PEOPLE LIVING AND TELLING THE TALE

"Generic" having scare quotes because there is no such thing as a 'generic' person, everyone is weird in their own little way, we all got quirks

I heard something about either Pixar or Disney not wanting their stories to be personal accounts or based on life experiences by the authors, like?????

Their biggest hits are all about the lived experiences and emotions of their creators, which is what makes the relatability