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The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say.
The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we hurt those around us.
But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends.
That failure becomes our destination.
To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.
“On 7th November 2014, Faiza Ahmed told staff at the job centre that she was three days late to sign on because she had been trying to commit suicide. Then she went home and rang the ambulance service. Police and an ambulance crew paid her a home visit and decided she wasn’t an immediate risk to herself – she was left alone and took her own life 40 minutes later.” Read More
This is awful, and sadly not an isolated incident. I remember calling a crisis hotline and being told I sounded fine. They recommended that I should go for a walk. I’m tired of our pain being invisible. We might have to imagine black owned mental health delivery systems.
"I am not the violent crack of lightning, or the powerful shake of thunder; I am the low rumble in the distance, the occasional flash you see out of the corner of your eye. This is what you fear. The invisible fury. An enemy you won’t see coming. Not until it’s too late."
FYI, I’M REBLOGGING THIS SHIT 3 MAYBE 4 TIMES A DAY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
#RIGHTEOUSFIRE
when he said “who told you you could be a part of this? who gave you some “how to be black” starter kit?!“ i almost choked on my food. that’s when i knew this was going to be total destruction.
gotdamn
Oh god.
I fucking love Black people yo. I love us. I just …. My god….
"You're not fully black" yet if you denied your blackness that person would b crying about how u self hating and shit. Ppl need to STOP invalidating mixed black ppls identities
it’s not that they invalidated my identity it’s more so that they’re trying to assert because of my white grandmother/white passing mother I can’t talk about blackness in terms of liberation? Like outside of acknowledging the ways that whiteness in my interpersonal relationships has privileged me and in ways made me more sympathetic to whiteness pre-education I’m not sure how to respond.
