It's a Love Story

by Annabel Monaghan

On the days I don’t run, worrying is my cardio.

There’s a difference between someone loving you and agreeing with every single thing you do.”

And it’s okay if you’re having fun. People do that all the time

This feels like wealth, I think. This is the thing you save up for. You live your whole life so that you can be surrounded by too many people in too small of a room and tell the story of how it all happened.

By the time we’re adults, most of us are just walking, talking versions of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of those stories are the ones we’re told over and over as children, while others are stories we concoct to try to understand the things happening around us.