Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

by Angela Brown

Once we got through the week, the month, the school year, the holidays, the nonsense, the stress, we’d find time to do the things we longed to do. But then we never did. Life, it turned out, could wait.

“You know, it’s okay to be happy and to still have things about your life that you want to change.”

That was the thing I was learning about death. Once you acknowledged that it was coming, you didn’t have time to feel afraid anymore.

Sometimes, you just have to sit quietly with your grief and give it room to breathe. You have to acknowledge that it is a part of you, and that it probably always will be.

There is no such thing as a perfect life. There are only perfect moments.