These Berlin Artparasites Posts Will Hit You Right In Them Feels

There are a lot of art based pages on the web. Many become famous and loved; many are great but never make it to being popular. When Berlin Artparasites started out on Facebook, it was soul food for your average millennial - medicinal words for the aching, for the ones struck by an existential crisis, the healing, and the heartbroken. Most often a poetry or a prose accompanied with an artwork, Artparasites drew audience like moth to a flame. Ironically, that is exactly the kind of tendencies many of the posts talked about - the self destructive ones.

But that is not all that the page address. From mental illnesses, to love (and the loss of it), to heartbreak, and finding hope - there is a reason why the millennials resonated with the posts so much. The many quotes and excerpts taken from writers, contributors, and curated works of famous authors strike the right note and gives people "them feels".

Here are a few for you to mull over.
 

 

"You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write" - Woodrow Wilson Artwork by @emanniandivory #loveletter #featuredbyartparasites

A post shared by Berlin Artparasites (@artparasitesofficial) on Nov 2, 2017 at 8:09am PDT

 

Find someone who loves you well. Someone who never belittles you. Even in the heat of an argument. Someone who is gentle with you, but does not treat you like you are fragile. Someone who knows what you are capable of, and celebrates those pieces of you. Not someone who is intimidated by your strength. Someone who doesn't make you feel guilty for being flawed. It is not love's job to punish you. And remember the person you love is just as broken as you are when they fall short. No one is perfect - do not hold them to this standard. Find someone who is patient, forgiving, and apologetic. Someone who practices forgiveness freely and often. Love someone who is humble, kind, and empathetic. Not only with you, but with a beggar on the street, or a stranger in the supermarket. Common courtesy is important. Compassion is important. Kindness is important" - Unknown Artwork by @koenhauser #insight #lifelessons #soulanatomy #featuredbyartparasites

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"My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix" - Karen Quan Photo by @dovneon #sinking #heartparasites #featuredbyartparasites

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"Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie" - Shannon L. Alder Painting by @jonfosterstudios #featuredbyartparasites #enlightment

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"Do something about your life now. You know you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Don't just think about it, look at it, and complain about it to whoever will listen. Stop conning yourself into being a volunteer victim, or telling the same old story. You are better than that. It's time to stand up for yourself and your dream. This is the one and only life that you have. Don't waste it watching someone's life - on tv, in a movie, a series or reality show. Take your power back and make a move. Live your life on your terms, and create something new in your life. You Deserve!" - Les Brown Artwork by (yet) Unknown #featuredbyartparasites #lifelessons #selfpity

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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares" - Henri J.M. Nouwen Painting by @semi_verbal_philosophy #realfriends #featuredbyartparasites #artistsofinstagram

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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place" - Michael Faudet Photo by @zeroin.in #featuredbyartparasites #picoftheday #artistsofinstagram

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Inside me there's an endless screaming / and I don't know if it's my heart / or my gut that screams" - Rainer Maria Rilke Artwork by @alexandra_levasseur #artlovers #artcollector #artoftheday #artsy #addictedtoart #poetrisnotdead #wordgasm #wordporn #word #artismydrug #poetry #rainermariarilke

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The best thing is that once you start exploring the posts, you will probably not be able to stop. And most of them end up making you go into this mellow, thoughtful mode - especially if you are one to overthink. It is like inebriation for the heart, only better and probably healthier.

Go on. Check out the page. Maybe you will learn something new about yourself as you are in the process of mulling over the words, or maybe you will simply enjoy the soothing words, and find solace in the fact that there are more people like you out in the world.