Serendipity.

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Sometimes I hold on too tightly and forget to give enough room; I can feel you suffocating. Yet, you hold my hands and tell me you understand. You understand what it’s like to constantly feel as if you lose the ones you love, so we make up for it by tight fists and strong arms - all while trying to be soft. You love me after all the bruises I leave and the pain I’ve inflicted, and my God I am just trying to love more each day. Please be patient with me as I learn to love you and myself better. That’s the only thing in life I want to perfect.

“Because when you’re 10, you feel like you’re on top of the world and nothing can take your love away from you. Because when you’re 13, you find yourself hiding the best parts of yourself to fit in with society. Because when you’re 17, your best friends tell you that you don’t deserve happiness and don’t deserve to be alive. Because when you’re 19, you realize that there are little things in life that make you feel like you’re 10 again, like getting breakfast with friends, meeting new people, or even finding a new song. I like to think that, that is the reason why it’s so important to keep going.”

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”