Maybe in Another Life

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“That’s my life story!” I tell him. “Made me feel better. So I did it.”

#mentality

It doesn’t matter if we don’t mean to do the things we do. It doesn’t matter if it was an accident or a mistake. It doesn’t even matter if we think this is all up to fate. Because regardless of our destiny, we still have to answer for our actions. We make choices, big and small, every day of our lives, and those choices have consequences. We have to face those consequences head-on, for better or worse. We don’t get to erase them just by saying we didn’t mean to. Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices. I’m starting to think that when we don’t own them, we don’t own ourselves.

That’s what you do when you want something. You don’t look for reasons why it won’t work. You look for reasons why it will.

Relationships aren’t neat and clean. They’re ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them.