Expiration Dates

by Rebecca Serle

It’s hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say, over and over again, “You.” Not everyone makes that choice. Not everyone can.

I’m trying to say is, I want your honesty. I can handle your honesty.”

acknowledging a desire means acknowledging the what-if of that want. I wanted it, and that meant I was terrified—of never having it. Of never getting there.

But here, now, I think even if there’s not a reason for everything, there may be a reason for everyone.

Without you I would not have everything that came next