I Need You to Read This

by Jessa Maxwell

You have to allow yourself to be vulnerable if you want to receive anything good this world has to offer.

We can never get back time—it’s one of life’s biggest tragedies but also one of its greatest motivators. If things were not finite, there would be no need to ever evaluate what is most important to us.

Sometimes it is easy to mistake hope for fear.

And even though things have been a little weird between us lately had, I felt myself getting all choked up.

nice, another typo.

Is it too brazen to suggest something so last-minute, or is it just spontaneous?

um double standard much?? didn’t she “suggest something so brazen” when she texted “dinner tonight?”

Actors are such amazing liars;

wow what an awful, generalized statement

What does any of it matter beyond being with your beloved one?

a good writer (or one with an editor) would’ve ended this sentence with “beloved” because “one” is just redundant here.

I finally went still, too weak to stand. He watched me as I lay there. The love of my life. Isn’t that what I called him to you once, Constance? I am never to be trusted again with my own heart.

You’ve probably been told that you can’t run away from yourself. Wherever you go, there you are, isn’t that the old adage? Though I appreciate the sentiment, I respectfully disagree. Because there are certain times you need to go someplace new to put your life back on course. I’m not saying it will automatically make you a different person. But it can be hard to change under the microscope of people we know, hard to stretch ourselves through the claustrophobia of the familiar. Sometimes the only way to be able to see yourself clearly is through a fresh lens. So go forward toward your new beginning. It’s not often in life we get to start completely fresh. Savor it.