Forever is the Worst Long Time

by Camille Pagán

It was one of those moments when you feel unbelievably lucky to have been placed on the planet at the same time as the people in your life.

“Being something for someone else is a perfectly good waste of a life, isn’t it?

I could be wrong, but I suspect that the people we are drawn to are the ones we need most, even if we are never able to fully comprehend why.

For loss carries with it two truths: that you have loved, and that you yourself have had the good fortune to live a little longer.