Trying to find a friend @nightmoonray

Things that make me worse

Lack of sleep.

Mid-afternoons.

Tight muscles.

The pace of contemporary existence.

Bad posture.

Being away from the people I love.

Sitting for too long.

Feeling ignored.

Instagram

Difficult decisions

Getting physically ill.

Thinking I am feeling depressed (the most vicious of circles).

Not drinking enough water.

Walking into a social function on my own.

Being alone.

●Things that make me feel better

Mindfulness.

Yoga.

Sleep.

Slow breathing.

Being around people I love.

Reading poems

Writing.

Eating well.

Long baths/showers.

Listening to music.

Going for a long walk.

Cooking

Light skies and walls.

The bank of bad days.

Large rooms.

Doing something selfless.

The smell of bread.

Wearing clean clothes (come on, I’m a writer, this is rarer than you’d think).

Thinking I have things that work for me.

Knowing that other things work for other people.

Absorbing myself into something.

Knowing that someone else may read these words and that, just maybe, the pain I felt wasn’t for nothing.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.