I Need You to Read This

by Jessa Maxwell

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 is surprisingly satisfying solving other people’s problems, she thinks. Much easier than fixing your own.

sometimes, just focusing on surviving makes it hard to know what direction you’re heading or if you are going anywhere at all.

I wonder if you are not missing your youth at all—being young is never as easy as we remember it—but rather the feeling of being true to who you are, of letting time stretch out in front of you in such a way that you don’t need to guard it or worry about its end. Or maybe you miss feeling hopeful.”

“The day-to-day is all we really have control over. You can’t solve wars in other countries, or end poverty, not as an individual human being. But perhaps you can mend a rift with your in-laws or help someone in need of encouragement.”

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.

Commitment to anything, let alone another person, takes bravery.

Sometimes it is easy to mistake hope for fear.