Climate

by Whitney Hanson

for once i wanted someone to be so sure of me that everything else disappears.

there are days where the little things feel like mountains. today is one of those days.

sometimes we just need someone to tell us that what we are feeling is okay. whatever is haunting you today it’s okay.

it is important to remember that existing wasn’t intended to be a burden allow yourself to enjoy things give yourself permission to put down the backpack full of stones you weren’t meant to feel this heavy

i wish we treated broken hearts like broken bones and sent ambulances for bleeding souls.

you are not too damaged to love you are not too damaged to love you are not too damaged to love

she has confused chaos for love for so long that she no longer knows how to love people peacefully.

you should not have to love with hesitation

your love isn’t too much

sane love makes you feel insane if insane love is all you have ever known patient love makes you feel restless if restless love is all you have ever known gentle love makes you feel uneasy if uneasy love is all you have ever known peaceful love makes you feel anxious if anxious love is all you have ever known we are creatures of the love that we know the way we are accustomed to receiving love defines the love that we search for

don’t beat yourself up over things you didn’t know until you knew them. that person you should not have handed your trust to so readily, those things you probably shouldn’t have said, that disaster you could have averted. the world doesn’t always hand out red flags. it doesn’t give receipts for lessons we learned too late. so, we move forward, and we do the best that we can with the knowledge that we hold now.

if you are the kind of person that i must ask to love me, then you are not the kind of person that is meant to.

thank you for helping me believe that i have always been enough that i don’t have to be anything more that i shouldn’t feel like being loved is something i must beg for

the moment i met you, i started anticipating skies that were blue. everything that was difficult for me became easy when i was with you.

let go of what you can’t control and focus on the things you can the rain will come but you can carry an umbrella

sometimes we don’t need someone to bring back the sun sometimes we just need someone to sit with us in the rain

being in love with someone and being right for someone aren’t the same thing

you know the brief moment when you drive through pouring rain and suddenly go under a bridge then the rain momentarily stops you are the bridge for me

i know that someone will love

the darkness in me because of how fiercely i loved the darkness in you. your rain clouds do not make you unlovable.