Just Haven't Met You Yet

by Sophie Cousens

“happily ever afters.” Maybe it was easier to be happy for other people when I felt my own soulmate might be just around the corner, but I keep turning corners, and no one is ever there.

“Someone once told me that growing up feeling loved allows you to go on to love other people. Maybe love is simply a huge chain letter, passed down through the generations. The details of the stories begin not to matter.”

“Most of us will never be the best at anything we do. It isn’t a reason not to do it.”

Maybe you don’t really want anyone to fill that space in your life.” Dee pauses. “And that’s fine too, Laura. You are allowed to be enough for yourself. You can be on your own if that’s what you want.

Women constantly undermine themselves with qualifying phrases like, “Sorry,” “I’m no expert but . . .” “I just wanted to check,” “I might have an idea.” Change the words you use, and you will change the way you are seen: I am not sorry, I am an expert, and I’m certainly not “yours,” sincerely or otherwise.

sighs—“maybe life’s more about carving out happy chapters than finding a single happy ending.”