south of perfect

build a life you love. laugh often and loudly and love the same way: love with all of you, love like you are a rock concert, screaming the words that have kept everyone in this room alive. let your love be what it wants to be. a crescendo. keeping you alive. drink less. tell your parents you love them. forgive the ones who hurt you time and time again. then forget them. don’t let the fire they started consume you. walk away and dive into the blue of everything that belongs to you. remember you can let go of the pain and still let go of them. forgive yourself for breaking every promise you made to him: remember how he begged you to. how he let you down. then let it all slip from your fingers and remember that this is how life is meant to be. don’t hold on too tight. love loudly but don’t hold on too tight. remember this life is constantly evolving. remember there are more permanent things. remember that there are mountains and valleys, and even those have not always belonged to this world. Even those will erode and fade eventually. be at peace with this remember that they are beautiful anyway. plant flowers everywhere, in every corner of yourself. let them grow. water them, give them all the sunlight they need. let them die.