The Personal Assistant

by Kimberly Belle

men don’t hate-follow. It wouldn’t even occur to them to do such a thing.

There’s no way to put a happy spin on a loss like ours, no way to pick the positives out of a steaming heap of shit.

“Anger is a secondary emotion,” my therapist keeps telling me. “Dig deeper and find the emotion fueling it.”

And maybe that’s the lesson here, that even in the midst of the messiest, scariest lives, there are moments of beauty, and you have to be relentless in snatching them up. In holding them up to the world as proof that, despite everything, you can still feel joy. Even if you’re not quite there yourself.