Photophilia

“Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.”

People think that stars give out wishes but what they really do is give out hope that something like that can happen. Wishes are out hearts’ whispers and we want to say them out loud to someone, anyone. And the stars are the only ones that listen and each small hope instilled is a cross off their to do list.

“Save your energy: don’t entertain toxic people.”

“Love someone who is kinder to you than you are to yourself.”

“At the end of the day, life’s about realising one’s human potential. I don’t know if I’ve realised mine, but I’ve certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.”

“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep. It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. ‘Hold tight’, I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.”

This hope, you plant in me,

“I wouldn’t ask you to lean on me, if I wasn’t prepared to fall with you.”