“Īnd when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. The world wasn’t made for us, we were made for the world. “Īs long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.
The world is not a wish-granting factory. Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go.
I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit. My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. I was thinking about the word “handle” and all the unholdable things that get handled. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful. Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! “Īs he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. I don’t think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost. I try to live life so that I can live with myself. I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what’s cool. Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young. That’s the thing about pain…it demands to be felt. What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life. I’d rather wonder than get answers I couldn’t live with. What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable? I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.