All I've Wanted All I've Needed

by A.E. Valdez

“Give yourself some grace. It’s okay to not be okay.

Even though everything feels like it’s falling apart, I can’t help but to also feel like everything is falling into place.

“There’s nothing wrong with being committed to yourself. 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.

People can tell you what you are all day, but you really have to believe it yourself for you to be able to embody it.

“I’m just trying to see if I accidentally put a shot of asshole in there, and I think I fucking did.” I raise my brows in disbelief, letting out a rumble of laughter.

😂😂😂

people who fade in and out of your life… they don’t matter. The ones who do matter will stand by your side regardless of what you got going on.”

“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.”

When you start being yourself, you attract people who you naturally vibe with.

if we were playing our game of hate, like, and love, I would be teetering on the edge of like. Ready to freefall into love.

When you lose someone it makes you acutely aware of how fleeting time is. When we consider time, it’s for appointments, birthdays, milestones, celebrations, et cetera. We don’t consider time being a series of moments we will eventually miss.

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

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

❤️❤️

This man is fluent in my body language. He worships me. I’ve never experienced this level of pleasure in my life. It isn’t only a physical pleasure, but an emotional pleasure as well. The pleasure of knowing someone wants to know every curve, thought, and detail of you so they can take you to a state of bliss only they can.

“That’s just life though isn’t?” I shrug. “The rise and fall, the ebb and flow…

“What did I do to deserve this?” I take the plate he’s holding out to me. “You exist. That’s all you need to do.”

There was no one before her. There will never be another after her. There is only her. Only us. All I’ve wanted. All I’ve needed.

❤️❤️

We’re all deserving of happiness and of a love that’s so deep that you only discover the depths to which it goes with each passing day as your love grows.