“(Writing prompt #73) I wish I would’ve known sooner how similar love is to chess. You must hurt the other player before they hurt you but also try to capture their heart before they reach yours. I was never very good at chess growing up. And now I’m older, it seems I’m not very good at loving you either.”

“She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that’s what love is—a total contradiction that somehow balances out.”

5sos: takes 3 months to write 2nd album

Don’t exhaust yourself to someone who doesn’t even bother to take a glimpse of how worthy you are to be loved.

And when you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

I am trying to both be happy and pay attention to the world around me. I do not know if it is possible to do both at the same time.

Garcinia cambogia is a small, tropical tree fruit shaped like a pumpkin. In the late 1960s, scientists discovered an acid in the fruit similar to citric acid in fruits like oranges and lemons. That acid, called hydroxycitric acid, or HCA, blocks the enzyme that converts sugars and starches into fat for long term storage. With this fruit you can literally eat more pasta and bread, and gain less weight.

And, because of “my fat melted away,” all I’m thinking of is

On cloudy days, Written words vanish And no longer am I Questioning stardust.   Light blinks back From suede night, Damaged by rain and Hailed gutters.   I question the accuracy Of their stones– Hitting metal, never Outstretched hands.   On days like these, poetry Flies from my fingertips And melts Before it lands.