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The glass is always half full in my world, even when there’s no water left to drink.
Reading time was the only time I ever truly allowed myself. The only time I slipped out of my own world into someone else’s and left the heaviness of mine behind.
It doesn’t matter how long you think you’ve prepared for saying goodbyes, there’s still that gut-thumping shock that comes when you see them truly looming.
There was so much to be found in people, as well as in pages.
Our story was only just beginning. We’d only just turned the first page.
“No matter how prepared you think you are to help someone slip away, it’s a completely different experience to actually witness them take their final breaths, and then to witness the pain of the people surrounding them. It doesn’t come easily.”
People going about their business, so many of them taking day after day without realising the miracle of life itself, just as I’d done for so many days of my own.
“Plenty of things about life scare me, but death doesn’t do shit to me now.”
It felt right. It felt safe. It felt real.
It doesn’t matter how many times you see people preparing at the end of life’s road, nothing prepares you for the slam of watching someone you love slip away.
“Grief destroys people. Always has, always will. You can think you’ve prepared for a whole fucking decade, but losing someone you love is always going to put you on your knees.”
It doesn’t matter how solid you think you are, you’ll still get torn to shreds when you say your last goodbyes to someone you love.”
“You look around you and see so clearly that people stress too much. Almost everyone has a big pile of crap they churn over day after day. It’s normal. Only it doesn’t have to be.”
“People resign themselves to be a product of what has happened to them without realising that they have a choice of who to be in any given moment. Change takes an instant.”
Don’t angst, don’t stress and don’t worry. The shit that’s going to happen is going to happen anyway.”
“All the miniscule things have huge power. It’s the tiny things that we need to appreciate, all day, every day.
No looking back and dwelling on the past. No blaming things for what’s happened. You just do it. Done. Dusted. Move on.”
Every moment truly is magical, just so long as your eyes aren’t blind to the wonders.
All hellos ultimately have their goodbyes. And all goodbyes hurt so much harder if the love they are founded on is so damn strong. Still, all hellos with people you love are worth it. They are all worth their weight in gold.
