What You Wish For

by Katherine Center

“It’s one of the secrets to life that no one ever tells you. Joy cures everything.”

But teachers always have everything else to think about.

Amen

You know those people? Those very rare, very special people who just play a kind of counterbeat to yours? It was like the way we talked had a rhythm, like he was the bass drum and I was the snare. He was doing his thing and I was doing mine, but the two of us together were just super danceable.

“just super danceable” goes crazy

Do you know what love-struck looks like? It’s so hard to describe—something about the eyes, just open and admiring and maybe even a little bit wonder-filled, like they’re drinking in the sight of you. That’s the only word I can come up with for his expression.

You know that feeling when you just click with somebody—when something about that person just lights you up? It’s so rare. When it happens, it feels like a little miracle—and all you want is more of that person.

She can explain the thoughts I have in my brain so perfectlyyyy

This is what it means to be fully alive. To feel it all—the joy and the sorrow, the hope and the fear. This is what life demands of us. You just have to stay, and try, and let life break your heart.

Love makes you better because it’s hard. Taking risks makes you better because it’s terrifying.