My Second First

“Na vida só há uma coisa certa, além da morte e do imposto de renda. Não importa o quanto você tente, não importa quão boas sejam suas intenções, você vai cometer erros. Vai magoar as pessoas. E será magoado.”

“As pessoas gostam de dizer que você mudou. Mas não querem saber o que te fez mudar.”

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

The Japanese say you have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends, and your family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are.

You are the books you read the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner. You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. You are every single second of every single day. So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and let the colours fill your mind.

That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.

He looked my way and I smiled. He looked right through me and I saw that he was looking at her instead of me. I didn’t know how he did it but he went right through the my broken heart.

Pick me, choose me, love me!

We all want to grow up. We’re desperate to get there, to grab all the opportunities we can… to live. We’re so busy trying to get out of that nest… We don’t think about the fact that it’s going to be cold out there… really freakin’ cold. Because growing up sometimes means leaving people behind. And by the time we stand on our own two feet… we’re standing there alone.