Say Hello To Someone Real Like You
Owen Pearn (Owen Parachute)
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If you’re 35 and up and rain’s your lucky number and your white heart still dreams despite this black world and it would be ok to be just a teensy bit more fabulous and maybe, just maybe, you want a moon-shot at being more fantastic than you have any right to be and there are feels and remembers and imagines and dreamy wonders then see if we’re a good fit.
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I’m a counsellor who types as INFP in the Myers-Briggs hegemony.
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If you’re younger than 35, my experience is you’re usually better off talking to someone else unless you’ve had a lot to do with “helping professionals” and they haven’t helped much, in which case see if we’re a good fit.
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If you just want to stay in touch at a safe distance, follow me by email here.
Top photo via Sandis Helvigs / Unsplash
‘Are you sure, Sandra? It didn’t rain on Saturday.’
‘It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.’
‘That sounds very painful.’
‘No, it sounds beautiful.’Tablo (Pieces of You)
Photo via Matteo Catanese / Unsplash
Enough rain, not enough rainbows?
I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.
Rudy Francisco
Photo via Matthew Henry / Unsplash
If you’re emo and you know it, clap your hands (clap-clap).
If you want to be loved, you have to make it safe for someone to love you.
And for that to happen, you have to be recognised.
And for that to happen, you have to be vulnerable enough.
You never know who would love the person you hide.
It might even be you.
What are INFPs? Aliens from a much gentler universe. If you meet one of us, be kind. We’re trying our best to adapt, but we’re all a bit homesick.
J.K.
Photo via Rob Mulally / Unsplash
Want to stop holding back?
You’ll live the length of your life, whatever that may be. Do you want to live the width of it as well?
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
Najwa Zebian
Photo via Ian Schneider / Unsplash
Want some help pushing the Feelbarrow?
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.
Cheryl Strayed (Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar)
Photo via Alessio Lin / Unsplash
Good news: The dream-world and the meat-world are connected by a faultless, uncompromised bridge.
Bad news: The bridge is guarded by a Troll Of Unkindness.
Good news: If you cast a Spell Of Mighty Kindness, the troll will turn into a flock of fly-away ravens, leaving the bridge clear.
Bad news: This spell requires you to be as kind to yourself as you are to others.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning.
Vincent Van Gogh
INFP Checklist
- Get confident (“Ok, maybe tomorrow”)
- Make a plan
- “Where on Earth did I put my plan?”
- “Hey, a unicorn!”
- “Oh, I found my plan!”
- “This plan is terrible, I must make it perfect.”
- HEAL
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- WORLD
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus
#fiercegrace
#unrestrictedclimb
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
