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[From Asiye].........
Asiye went to watch Everywhere All at Once in the theatre with her family last week (it was a disaster, she would not recommend watching it with family, at all), then ended up watching the movie with a beloved person in discord. They did cry for very long and she ended up crying once again after hearing a googly eye reference.
The movie left her quite speechless; she spent hours comparing works of literature to the movie (the Minecraft and poem had her crying, shaking, and throwing up *metaphorically of course*), questioning the meaning of her life and the mundane in everything around her. She spent the next few days questioning the importance of her worries and realising how they are a very very tiny part of the beautiful and terrific cosmos.
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however aside from all that hassle my dear friend, the meaning of life might be different for all of us. It could be sticking googly eyes on random places or writing silly letters or hugging our friends! It could also be saving or travelling the world to save the whole cosmos. Whatever our purpose or meaning is, we deserve love and forgiveness.
Remember how the world used to feel on your best days, expansive and bright. That world is still here, and you enable to find your way back to it. - madame clairevoyant
It really all comes down to love (oh god, please let it all come down to love), maybe it's all regarding letting the soft animal of your body love what it loves, as my dear friend Mary Oliver said in her very beloved poem "Wild Geese"; You do not have to be good, you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. Let your hands go, you do not have to hold the spring between your hands, let your hands hold another (a tree perhaps). My dear lovely friend, let your heart rest, you do not have to walk with the weight of the world on your chest. (You do not have to be good). Come sit under the shade of a tree with me.
And the universe said, "I love you" because you are love, and you can try again. You can try loving as much as you'd like (because love is all around us) (because we are love and we are loved), because the only hopeful thing there is, is to try. My dear friend, you do not have to stay stuck under the burden of your mistakes, you do not always have to try your best. Ocean Vuong was indeed right, as we are on earth very briefly gorgeous, we can be ugly, and things can get messy. Let it all down and sit under a pretty tree.
My dear dear darling friend, let's live our teeny tiny lives in this cosmos as messily and clumsily we would like, let's allow ourselves to fall down and overflow for the 5th time that day, we do not have to be good, all we need to do is rest and try again, all we can do is to forgive. All we can do is try to be kinder everyday.
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Asiye still said,
my dearest friends, I send you the warmest hugs and hope you are doing well despite the wind that seems to have caught all of us these days. We are doing well, we shall be well.
Warmly, Asiye.
Here's her poem that I love so much.
~Cheerio
