All I've Wanted All I've Needed

by A.E. Valdez

I’m so comfortable in my familiarity that I’ve lost myself in it.

“Believe in yourself, babe! You are exactly where you need to be. You wouldn’t be sitting here with me right now if you weren’

“Face your shit. You can’t run from good thing to good thing, hoping it will erase the bad shit that happened.

The problem with comfort is that it makes it easier to slip into routines. It makes it easier for us to become stagnant.

I didn’t have to ask him for a thing. He just did it.

“Stop acting like you owe everybody something. You don’t owe anyone anything. The only person you owe something to is yourself. It’s okay to walk away from something that isn’t working for you.”

It becomes exhausting trying to appeal to people. When you start being yourself, you attract people who you naturally vibe with.

With time, you realize people who were once your world matter a little less to you each day.

I’m not going to say yes to shit I hate.

Sometimes you just got to get the fuck away. Why do you think I moved out to California? We’ve gotta do what’s best for us, Harls. No one else fucking will.”

“You’re all I’ve wanted,” he says. “And you’re all I’ve needed,” I reply.