Things I Learned in the Night

by Emily Byrnes

karma isn’t magic, it’s the action of reaping what you sow.

(There’s a reason you’re here. There is meaning in your journey. There is recovery. There are better brain days. There are fewer tears. There are smiles that aren’t so forced. There is happiness. Believe that.)

why do we keep using love to justify pain?

we knew our flame was going to burn out, we just didn’t know how long it would take.

forever is so easy at eighteen and so easy to forget by twenty three.

It’s funny how boring normalcy seems until it is ripped away.

I love too hard and watch it die and never, ever understand why.

Maybe it will be ten breaths or ten months or ten years but eventually, if I just keep counting, the pain from you will fade away and you will be a tiny scar or a little mark or if I'm lucky, nothing at all.

So stay young while you can, keep your imagination keep your wonder, your joy, your drive for creation.

years later, Alice returned to Wonderland to find that nothing was quite the same. Because growing up and moving on can do that to a person.