Spring thoughts
Mar. 29th, 2025 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
just_cydHope is the sun still breaking through cracks in the purple darkness at 8:10pm the last week of March.
Kindness is the PA giving you fluconazole with the doxycycline, because antibiotics can work too well, and why add insult to injury?
Relief comes from that small bottle of foul-tasting yellow liquid, that's somehow easier to choke down than the barely-touched bottle of port that you gave in to, but didn't really want
Strength is not so much saying "no" when you really meant to, but saying "enough" and putting the cup down, wasted wine be damned.
Resilience is knowing that open bottle of port can sit there and not bother you one whit.
Maturity is knowing what could have come next, and all the ways it could have possibly ended, and knowing that the best ending of all would be not beginning, changing the subject, climbing the stairs to your own bed, alone.
Kindness is the PA giving you fluconazole with the doxycycline, because antibiotics can work too well, and why add insult to injury?
Relief comes from that small bottle of foul-tasting yellow liquid, that's somehow easier to choke down than the barely-touched bottle of port that you gave in to, but didn't really want
Strength is not so much saying "no" when you really meant to, but saying "enough" and putting the cup down, wasted wine be damned.
Resilience is knowing that open bottle of port can sit there and not bother you one whit.
Maturity is knowing what could have come next, and all the ways it could have possibly ended, and knowing that the best ending of all would be not beginning, changing the subject, climbing the stairs to your own bed, alone.
