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And yet, being so lost, so incredibly rock bottom, comes with a kind of freedom if you are able to harness it. Isn’t there something almost delicious about being able to start fresh? It’s like that Janis Joplin song, freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. Rarely in life do you have the opportunity to start completely from scratch.
The answer is obvious. He has to change the way he sees himself, to dismantle the image he has of himself as some sort of unappreciated genius. He needs to start living the life he actually has. If he fails to do so, he is destined for a lifetime of misery either with or without his wife and kids.
All my life I have felt like I was at sea alone in a boat that was bound to sink unless I kept my hands on the oars. But the problem with paddling like crazy is that sometimes, just focusing on surviving makes it hard to know what direction you’re heading or if you are going anywhere at all.
below at the tiniest patch of checked tile floor.
How do you know what you are meant to be doing with your life, Constance? How do you learn to trust yourself? Sincerely, Lost Girl
Nothing was ever good enough for me to commit to, and now that I’ve committed to nothing, I have nothing.
the kind of comfortable chemistry where just watching them do something mundane is attractive.
Sometimes it is easy to mistake hope for fear.
Whatever image you have in your head of Francis, please just erase it. She was so far from having it all together. She had a bad temper sometimes. She swore like a sailor. And she could be impossible.”
Grief will make a person do desperate things, Alex thinks, watching the woman’s chin tremble. The loss of someone you love can transform you into something else entirely, someone you don’t even recognize.
The things I once enjoyed seem like such a distant memory that I can no longer even remember what I liked about them.
“Maybe she only seems mean because that’s the only way she’s been able to get people to listen to her.”
no amount of privilege can buy you contentment.
“You know, the emotional part is always so much harder than the physical anyway.
