Hello Stranger

by Katherine Center

Plus, don’t we all, deep down, carry an inextinguishable longing for our parents to be proud of us? Even long after we’ve given up?

This isn’t relevant … but he was cute.

Girl, of COURSE its relevent

“Our thoughts create our emotions. So if you fixate on your worst-case scenario, you’ll make things harder for yourself.”

Whoa. This lady could use whom in conversation. And make it sound right. She was literally the coolest.

“You’re very in your head,” she said. “I’d like to see you dip into your heart.” “I like it in my head.” “But that’s not really where we live.”

Awwww man

Eat first, worry later.

Best adive the world has to offer

That’s the dark underbelly of hope that nobody ever talks about. How it can skew your perspective. How it can keep you in long past when any reasonable person would’ve been out.

Isn’t it lucky when we’re drawn to people who can teach us things we need to learn?

Seeing the world differently helps you see things not just that other people can’t—but that you yourself never could if you weren’t so lucky. It lets you make your own rules. Color outside your own lines. Allow yourself another way of seeing.

But I find the antidote to that is just keeping a sense of humor. And staying humble. And laughing a lot. And doubling down on smiling. We’re all just muddling through, after all. We’re all just doing the best we can. We’re all struggling with our struggles. Nobody has the answers. And everybody, deep down, is a little bit lost.

Sometimes we really are the best versions of ourselves. I see that about us. And I’m determined to keep seeing that about us. Because that really might be the truest thing I’ll ever know: The more good things you look for, the more you find.