Don't You Forget About Me

by Mhairi McFarlane

I gaze at those implacable start and finish dates, that I wish I’d been warned about.

he was a man who lit up a room by leaving it.

“No one else is going to fix you. The only person who can fix you, is you.”

“Sometimes because the people we wanted to care for us, didn’t care for us, we live with a deliberate lack of care for ourselves. A way of getting back at them, through self-neglect.”

I might never feel like that with anyone again. But that’s the risk I have to take, right? When I know it’s over and we shouldn’t be together. I think I can manage not being in love

No one wants to be miserable in order to leave a funny-poignant memoir,

It’s OK to turn nice guys down. I’m fine as I am.

So I reach out into the past, take the hand of that vulnerable, hopeful girl I used to be, and pull her forward to join me.