Hello Stranger

by Katherine Center

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.

It takes a certain kind of courage to be brave in love. A courage you can only get better at through practice.

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.

We’re all so busy seeing what we expect to see.

The more good things you look for, the more you find.