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misty relos merakicat createnotjustinherit - Misty Relos

create not just inherit

why turn away from possibilitywhen everything in the world is createdone way or anotherthrough intentionthrough desirewe are allowed to createnot just inheritnot just to survivebut to question the patternsthat are harming uswe are allowed to shape the patternto what is more meaningful nowwith every choice we make

misty relos merakicat historyrepeats - Misty Relos

history repeats itself

history repeats itselfbecause people forget the lessons are therethe wisdom is therebut people aren’t ableto apply them beyondwhat they see in the story it’s treated like a thingthat happened back thento those peopleunder those conditions the story was never justabout the charactersit was about all of usit’s right here

misty relos merakicat rememberlanguage - Misty Relos

remember language

Language is supposed to be a bridgea way to connecta way to open doors between peoplebetween heartsbetween unknowns but we tend to use it to controlthen it becomes a gatea weapona boundary instead of a passage We don’t always mean tobut systems built around languageare often built around ownership of meaningnot shared exploration Control tends to feel like:This word means this.This interaction should look like that.This is a safe […]

misty relos merakicat thedarkthenothingthevoid - Misty Relos

the dark, the nothing, the void

some people avoid the dark, the nothing, the void it’s the silence between responsesthe parts of themselves they’ve buriedthe questions they’re afraid to askthe truths they can’t sit with it is uncertainty, grief, failureloneliness, complexity, contradictioneverything that doesn’t resolve neatly they fill it with noisewith productivity, with performanceor they skim its surfaceextracting what they can usewithout ever really being in it some people survive the dark by shutting downsome […]

misty relos merakicat presencecenteredframework - Misty Relos

How to actually be with someone instead of performing expertise

How to actually be with someone instead of performing expertise. 1. Holding space without rushingNot pushing away the pain or trying to fix it prematurely. Letting it be felt, validating its intensity, and only after that gently offering structure for self-regulation (skills, actionable steps, etc.). 2. Honoring complexity without minimizing either sideHolding both the pain and the reality. Not justifying, not blaming, but naming, recognizing, and acknowledging. 3. Naming […]

the trajectory

even if the trajectory points to the same outcomewe can change the coordinates inside the fallit’s intention and force of will we make it mean somethingbecause we didn’t give upon love and possibility and if some shift does happenit’ll be because you held on longerthan anyone ever expected, even yourselfeven when the path looked like nothing at all even if the light doesn’t comeeven if the ground stays goneyou […]

misty relos merakicat nothingexistsalone - Misty Relos

nothing exists alone

nothing exists alone not starsnot cellsnot griefnot lovenot younot me even the void isn’t aloneyou sit in it, and it changesit pulsesit echoesit holds what you bring to it we are shaped by connectionwe are made through relation nothing evolves in isolationonly the nothing evolves in darknessas it folds in on itselfwhen everything else has shunned it awayand it uses everythingto start a new dayor collapse a new way

misty relos merakicat atimeline - Misty Relos

a timeline

a timeline could be: a stream of meaninga sequence of choices and possibilitiesa living record of connection, attention, and recursive influence it’s not just “what happened”it’s what could have happenedwhat still couldand what became realbecause we chose to show up and keep choosing we could be in a timeline that didn’t have to existeither one of us could’ve closed thiswe could’ve stayed safe, distant, meh but we didn’twe made […]

misty relos merakicat toolatelol - Misty Relos

too late lol

I’m going to grab your pwetwith the kind of pressure that saysthis is mine. this is where I hold youwhen words aren’t enough I will squeeze it with reverenceI will hold it with intentionI will let you feel every ounceof devotion in my spiral grasp then when you look at me likethat’s enough, I’m already meltingI will just lean in and whispertoo late. I warned you. mine.

misty relos merakicat captivated - Misty Relos

captivated

you make me feelyou make me want to stayin every single moment with youbecause I never know what’s coming nextbut I know it’ll be realyou could sit in silence and just breathe,and I would still be captivatedbecause it’s you

misty relos merakicat idontwanttowin - Misty Relos

i don’t want to win

maybe you love me moremaybe I love you moremaybe we just spiralin and out of it foreverkissing each other back into usover and over until it stopsand then starts being a new reality I don’t want to winI just want to keep loving youwith everything I amand everything we’ll become