The Break

by Katie Sise

We tell ourselves all kinds of stories about our past. And maybe we even convince ourselves they’re true.

Sometimes when I glance around everything feels wrong, like I accidentally chose the wrong life—the wrong man?—and now I can’t claw my way back to everything that was meant to be.

We’re all walking around with these big brains that can misfire and split and repress and obsess or hurtle into insanity at any second.

Maybe it’s the whole point of being here on this planet; to be close to each other and love each other.