They can build you up quick, but tear you down even faster. Words can help. Words can heal. Words can also fucking hurt, and the ramifications last a lifetime. Some people throw words around like a hand grenade with no idea the damage they cause, and it’s heartbreaking. Words. One, ‘you’re fat,’ erases one hundred, ‘you’re beautiful.’ WORDS It only takes one ‘I don’t care about you.’ to erase one hundred, ‘I love you’s.’ Words One, ‘you’re an idiot,’ erases one hundred, ‘you’re so smart.’ Unfortunately, some of us are just collateral damage in someone else’s war with themselves. They spit venom and then wonder why no one wants to…

Ah who doesn’t love a good Beatles song, am I right? This one is my favorite. I have the very best view of the sunrise coming up over the mountains from my bedroom. I used to set my alarm so I wouldn’t miss it. Every single day I would wake up and force myself to find the beauty in the start of a new day. It was awful… at first. I was tired and grumpy and had no idea why I thought missing sleep, for ANYTHING, was a good idea. Some mornings I would sleep through my alarm and miss it. Guess what though? The sun was still coming up…