lightly

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lightly child, lightly. learn to do everything lightly. yes, feel lightly even though you are feeling deeply. just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. i was so preposterously serious in those days... lightly, lightly - it's the best advice ever given to me. so throw away your baggage and go forward. there are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. that's why you must walk so lightly. lightly, my darling.

- aldous huxley

‎there were always in me, two women at least,
one woman desperate and bewildered,
who felt she was drowning and another who
would leap into a scene, as upon a stage,
conceal her true emotions because they
were weaknesses, helplessness, despair,
and present to the world only a smile,
an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
...and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- anais nin


such an incredible poem my aunt (and god mother, and second mom, and inspiration) posted. gracias madrina!
photog cred: the one and only jana williams: 
www.jana-williams.com