استمر

Me: “Welcome! May I offer you a free mask?”

Every day I’ll hear large groups pause outside the door, read the “masks recommended” sign, debate whether or not to put them on, and then say, “Oh, well, there’s no one here, just an employee. We don’t need them.”

“People who reject you for being broken after they’re the ones who broke you, or who act like they’re not the problem and the problem is the issues you had before them, are evil. They just are. And also, it’s like, “Yeah but you compounded those preexisting issues like interest, asshole.” Truly, to break someone that much, for that long, and to then tell them the reason you’re ending it is because they asked you to stop breaking them, and if you were a better person, you’d be okay with having them break you, is soulless at best.”

“Ya Rabb, Ya Karim, whoever wishes good for me in the secrecy of the night or in the openness of daylight, grant them double of what they’ve wished for me. And whoever wishes harm to touch me, pardon them and stretch distance and forgiveness between us.”

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

No one wants to deal with you when you’re sad all the time.

“I have phases, like the moon. Phases to hide myself,”