ashleyaron:

I gotta be honest, kids.  Things are rough.  This thing happens when the people that made you die, where you stop knowing how to take care of yourself.  It’s like when your mom goes away for the weekend and leaves you in the house to fend for yourself and you eat nothing but frozen pizza for three days, and you have to carve your way through empty chip bags and pairs of your socks on the living room floor to get to the kitchen while you put your 3rd viewing of Ferris Beuller that day on pause in order to get yourself a rootbeer float.

Except that’s your life now.  And there’s no number on the fridge to call in case of emergencies.  

So, sometimes you need a reminder that it’s possible to do things that make you feel good…well, better anyway.  

Here’s my self-care list - in no particular order:

1) Go on the swings at the park by your house.  You can feel weightless for a moment.

2) Cut down on the number of times per week you eat popcorn/cereal for dinner.

3) Try to do laundry once a week.  Just because you have 30 pairs of underwear doesn’t mean you have to wear them all before you wash them.

4) Moisturize.  You have time for that.

5) Find as many ways as possible to combine the colours of Sea-foam and pink.

6) Go for walks and take pictures of things that seem beautiful to you.

7) Be grateful for the few minutes every day when you wait for the bus.  This is a time during which you have no responsibilities and no control over what happens.  Relish it.

8) Try not to go on the internet after 8pm.  You will find things to do, trust me.

9) Make some meal plans.  This means you know what to buy when you go to the grocery store and you won’t feel so panicked and lost in there.

10) Journal.  Just. Fucking. Do. It.  It makes that racing brain of yours slow down a little, and it needs a bit of a break sometimes.

Ya gotta start with the basics, amiright?