MIND ---------------------- MATTER

Maybe I’m scared because you mean more to me than any other person. You are everything I think about, everything I need, everything I want.

Sometimes you need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they’ll notice and respond. And if they don’t then you’ll know where you stand.

Date someone you can have rough sex and deep conversations with whether it be at 2 am or 2 pm.

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

But I don’t want small talk. Text me, and without saying hello, tell me why you got so angry at your sister this morning. Tell me why you have a scar shaped like Europe on the left side of your neck. Send me paragraphs about the time you spent at your grandmother’s house that one summer. Call me when I’m half asleep and tell me why you believe in God. Tell me about the first time you saw your dad cry. Go on for hours about things that may not seem important because I promise that I’ll be hanging on to every word you say. Tell me everything. I don’t want someone who just talks about the weather.