Extraordinary Means

by Robyn Schneider

Everything of who I was and who I wanted to be had been evicted to make room for the disease.

“There’s a difference between being dead and dying. We’re all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.”

“We mourn the future because it’s easier than admitting that we’re miserable in the present.”

Because that’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.