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“The deeper you love, the deeper the risk of disappointment, and hurt, and loss. The more you care, the more pain you might face.
“This isn’t funny.” “I know.” I peer up at him and smile. “But just because it’s not funny doesn’t mean you can’t laugh. Sometimes laughter is all you have.”
“Reading a book is just like opening your heart to someone. You won’t know if you’ll connect until you try.”
And that’s the best kind of friendship, isn’t it? Friendship that lets laughter and tears hold hands, where grief and gratitude can be friends, not enemies.
It’s being human. This is existence. This is friendship. We love each other. We take turns holding each other up.”
Have you truly experienced nature until you’ve shit your brains out in a field? I think not.
“Good art—no matter how representational it does or doesn’t appear—is representational of human emotion. It expresses and evokes our feelings, not just with color on the canvas, but with every space where color isn’t. Absence has presence. Abstraction is representational.”
Her hand slips inside mine, and every thought dissolves. Maybe love isn’t complicated, then. Maybe love is simple. Maybe it’s people who make it complicated. Maybe I can just be—here, now, touching her, lost to this moment and every moment I get with her. Maybe that can be enough.
I love him. I think I’ve been falling in love for quite a while. Like a domino effect, it’s been moment after moment, one tipped onto the other, building speed and beauty as they connected. Before the last inevitable click as that final piece fell and revealed itself.
I always thought realizing you loved someone would be this epic moment, an emotional firework grand finale. But this wasn’t. It was quiet and steady, tender and unexpected.
I’m learning that being brave isn’t being fearless but rather facing our fears and not letting them dictate our lives. It’s living honestly in the imperfection of existence. It’s finding love in those messy places and fighting for it.
