Let's Pretend This Will Work

by Maddie Dawson

especially if you’re open to being encouraged all the time and hearing about how you’re made of stardust.

All hyperbole. He was clearly one of those older guys who’s nice to everybody.

“Well, I just think that when that first love comes along, it brings with it a huge thunderclap of feeling—something so amazing that we get overwhelmed with it. And that it’s tempting to think that it’s the only love there ever could be in the world. But then it ends. Most of the time it ends. And then, a long time later, we look back and see that that whole experience of love was just a little kiddie pool we were paddling around in. And that actually a really huge ocean awaits us.”

I think that when you see bitter people out in the world, people who’ve been married for forty years and they tell you that love isn’t really real, that it never works out, those are the people who settled for the kiddie pool, and it dried up, and they never knew what was really out there for them. Saddest thing in the world.”

now I see there is something holy about longing.

If I had a sign it would say . . . oh, never mind.

“How about you just try to remember that it’s all going to work out, and don’t sweat the details. Just sit back and be curious, why don’t you?”

“I’ve heard rumors from your heart that that’s what you really want to do.”

concentrate on magic and the universe and the incredible miracles that wait for us around every corner if we just have the sense to look for them and pay attention.