Dashboard Confessions

Do yourself a favour and watch this. I am sobbing with laughter at one a clock in the morning, i literally had to stop the video because I couldn’t see through my tears of mirth.

IF YOU DO NOT WATCH THIS

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that ‘unless you love yourself, no one else will love you’ …The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

And I’m in love with you. And it’s not because it’s 12am at night and I haven’t slept in over two days. It’s because I am truly inconveniently in love with you. And It’s not because I’m sad and I want to dissapear. It’s because I just love you for simply being you. I love you at 4am when I’m awake with nothing but my thoughts. I love you at 10am when I wake up with hope filled in my heart, hoping you’d text me. And I love you at 3pm when I’m doing something and wishing you were there. I will continue on loving you. Tomorrow and the days that goes on after that and I’m in love with you.

I have no intention of romanticizing pain, grief or sorrow in any way. It’s just that these emotions are so raw and real, they make me feel more than just a mess of flesh and bones.

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.