"You have 3 days to be sad. 3 days to dwell in what you did and didn’t do. 3 days to remember all..."

“You have 3 days to be sad. 3 days to dwell in what you did and didn’t do. 3 days to remember all those good times and all those bad times. 3 days to stay in bed, watch TV, binge on junk food and not care about the world outside. But once those 3 days are over, you have to start living again. Open your blinds, take a long shower, dress up even if you have nowhere to go. Because once those 3 days are over and the sadness you felt and still may feel has had its way, you have to get up. Because I’m going to tell you the truth, and it’s only because I love you, that no one outside of these windows and this town are going to stop living because you feel like you should. So get up and join them. Just because he says he doesn’t want you anymore doesn’t mean that no one else does.”

- “Advice from my father when I was 16 and said that I would rather be sad then have to go on living without him,” - Colleen Brown (via mostlyfiction)