The Fall Risk

by Abby Jimenez

“Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.”

“Red flag guys aren’t your type. They’re your pattern.” There was a long pause. “Why’d you have to come for me like that?” “Because I love you. I want to see you happy. I think you pick toxic men because it’s what you think you deserve. And then you chase them off, or they prove they’re exactly what you think they are, and they leave you, and you think you deserve that too. You don’t. You are very worth loving. And sticking around for.”

“Sometimes the start of something good begins during something bad,” he said. “We don’t get to pick when these things happen.”

They say it’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

Everyone wants to do something that matters. Leave a legacy. I was proud that this one was mine. Even if it did suck while it was happening.