Never Always Sometimes

by Adi Alsaid

‘social experiment

Six months later, she’d taken off again, even happier to return to her unordinary life.”

It was like he’d been carrying around a coloring book that hadn’t yet been drawn in.

Pura vida

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don’t know what the other side looks like.”

the cold felt good against his skin, maybe because he felt liberated.

“It’s from a book. It says, ‘a little better than you found it.’”

beautiful passage about how the best you can ever do is to leave the world a little better than you found it. It doesn’t matter how you do it.

reach out a helping hand; just, you know, leave it a little better than you found it.”

“Timbuktu by Paul Auster,”

certain lines felt like they were thoughts I’d had my whole life that just hadn’t taken shape yet until I read them.

‘A little better than you found it’ is how I see everything now. Not just the world, but everything.

Don’t let hurricanes hold you back, raging rivers or shark attack, find love, and give it all away.

Dave was her best friend. She was his best friend. Nothing had changed.

reminded himself to look around, to enjoy everything about a given moment.

“To the fire in our hearts,”

“How’s your day been?” Julia hated the question. It had always felt to her like a question asked between people with nothing else to say.

if she ever started her conversations with How was your day? to reexamine her choices in life.

But heartbreak was heartbreak was heartbreak.

I want you to leave things a little better than you found them.”

A cliché, maybe, to let someone go because you loved them. It hurt, but it was better than any of the alternatives.

Dave deserved happiness, even if it wasn’t with her.