Anyway, it doesn’t matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can’t control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.
Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.
I’d tried enough to know that anything long term wasn’t going to work.
Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.
We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.
Your heart can break at any age.
What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?
Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.
Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.
She couldn’t remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.
One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
And nobody had told them that they were short on time.
So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.
There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you’ll make the right decision.
I was the life and she was the soul of every party.
I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.
Children are the ones that know exactly what’s going on in the world, you know. They ‘see’ more than adults, ‘believe’ in more, are honest, and will always, ‘always’ let you know where you stand.
What seems tragic now won’t even be an issue in a few years time.
Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.