Attached at the Hip

by Christine Riccio

It’s weird to form these intense pressure-cooker bonds with someone for three days and then just be entirely cut off from them the next three.

“No one who doesn’t love Survivor brings it up casually in conversation.”

“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. That’s a powerful perspective shift.”

How does a person in modern society have absolutely no internet presence?

“In the end, it’s not about messing it up or knocking it out of the park, it’s about getting up off the couch and doing it in the first place. Trying. Growing.

“Life’s what you make it, so let’s make it rock.”

“We put ourselves in neat labeled boxes to make sense of who we should be. We wall ourselves off from what we think we can’t do to try and protect ourselves from getting hurt. From failing.

“We can all do so much more than we give ourselves credit for. We just have to step out of those neat little boxes to realize it.

“We only live once, and … I … I want to run into my fears, and pounce on good things, and chase them.” “I think you’re describing a day in the life of an outdoor cat.”