Secret Ceremonials

I mean you ask me not to fall in love with you and then you go write poems with your tongue and draw constellations in my freckles

Let me tell you something you already know.  The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows.  It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.  You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.  But it ain't about how hard you hit.  It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward.  How much you can take and keep moving forward.  That's how winning is done.  Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth.  But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody.  Cowards do that and that ain't you.  You're better than that.

When I win, I'm euphoric.  Nothing can bother me.  Winning raises me up, above the fray.  I float happily above the little things that make life messy and hard.  After I win for a little while, everything is right in the world.  Winning feels like falling in love.