All I've Wanted All I've Needed

by A.E. Valdez

When you’re not focused on love, that’s when it sweeps you up.”

The problem with comfort is that it makes it easier to slip into routines. It makes it easier for us to become stagnant. I don’t want to be stagnant, and that’s what I felt like with him. That I wasn’t growing and exploring. I want the chance to know myself outside of being in a relationship. I want to fall in love with myself. No, I need to fall in love with myself.

The most important relationship we will ever cultivate is the one that we have with ourselves.”

laughter is her medicine. If it were bottled up and sold, I would buy a lifetime supply.

I’ve lost myself in him but in exchange have also found myself in him.