Attached at the Hip

by Christine Riccio

“Ever since graduation last year, I feel like I’ve been forcibly shoved out of the umbrella term: young adult.”

“She says we have to feel our feelings so we don’t become them. They creep up on us.”

I want a partner. I want to love someone. I want to take care of them, and I want them to take care of me. Is that so terrible? Everyone says you have to stop trying to fall in love for it to happen. It’ll happen when you least expect it. Why can’t I expect it? Why am I not allowed to want to fall in love, for it to happen for me?

Apparently, I don’t know how to balance being a romantic with being delusional.

I always want to choose compassion over cynicism.