#because coffee

“Damn!” Sojourn says. “Fareeha come over here!” She shouts over the din of the café and Fareeha comes running in. “Sup?” “How the hell did you manage to land a girlfriend as pretty as her?” “Well, I gave her food.” “That is true.” Angela confirms.

So I made coffee (because screw the heat I wanted coffee), and as I'm getting the milk I noticed there was an open carton of heavy cream and then I thought 'I haven't had waffles in a really long time what's up with that' which led to a whole other tangent I've mostly forgotten and then

People want comfort in a relationship. Comfortable to be what they want. Comfortable to say what they like. Comfortable to know that you have their back. Comfortable to cry around you. Comfortable to be weak around you. At the same time, one person's comfort is the other's pain. You will have to take pain to give the other comfort. Lose a night's sleep to comfort the other from a nightmare.

"Human relationships are meant to be slow, uncomfortable, messy processes. They look like they aren't worth the effort, that the return is too small, but in the end, its worth every little thing you put into it. There are no shortcuts, there are no quick fixes. There were fights, big ones, big enough to put what we had in danger. It was scary, it was stressful, but we stuck, because that is life. You fail, you learn and you live. It scares me sometimes at night what would have happened if we had given up"

Kindness isn't paid back. Kindness is paid forward." The Rose Lady says. "You can't get back at someone who does you good. You have to do good to others to pay the ones who were good to you. If you could just pay back the good done to you, it would stop right there. It would never reach anyone else. It would never reach anyone who needs it.