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‘if you fail to plan, you plan to fail’ is 100% true. And if there’s anything I refuse to be, it’s a failure.
Each time, she's with a new boyfriend, and as she gets older, they seem to be getting younger. I'm pretty sure by the time she’s seventy, she’ll be dating a sperm sample. I can just imagine it now: “This is sample 15428Q, from a Norwegian pediatric surgeon. He’s a champion swimmer, and he just loves to ram his head against things…”
That’s actually not bad advice when it comes to life. Sometimes, you get hit hard and fast by a crushing wave, and your first instinct is to fight it, even when you know nothing can be done. You’ll save yourself a whole lot of trouble by just going with the flow.
A laid-back, island-life approach makes everything so much sweeter — especially relationships, because like the tides, relationships come and go, and you’ll be much better off if you know that going in.
“Sometimes when a person is too close to a situation, we see what we want to, instead of what is real,”
I stare at his gorgeous face, and the thought pops into my mind that I could literally stare at that face forever.
“Seriously, you can just go ahead and grope me all you like. I already told you I don’t mind.”
The truth is, there's really nothing I'd rather do than look after the people I care about. I suppose that's a weird goal in life,” I say, feeling strange about admitting this to her. “Maybe it makes me unambitious.”
I don’t think I've ever had anyone who thought taking care of me was anything more than a burden.”
giving up someone you know inside and out and someone who cared for you for a long time is never easy. Even when it's right.
“Harrison, in case one of us doesn’t make it, I need you to know I’m completely in love with you and that stupid report you read was meant to protect you,”
Our future isn’t set in stone — in fact, I guess you could say it’s only drawn in the sand, but maybe that’s how plans are supposed to be made. In the sand, so that when they get washed away, you can quickly draw up a new one together.
And the truth is, that’s what counts in life. Not what you do, but who you do it with
