... but you must break this fixation on love as the cure to all of your ills, if you found love right now, you would run it straight into the ground in seconds.
In the long run, you will find love. Right now, you need to sign up for art classes, dance classes, yoga or cooking classes - or all of the above.
You need to be active and be around people, all kinds of different people, you need to practice accepting yourself, with all of your quirks, in the company of other human beings.
You need to be open to the world around you. You need to move through the world by listening to other people, without trying to prove that you're good enough for them. Just exist and be your shy self or bold self.
Have lunch, have coffee and continue to work hard on things that won't dry up and blow away :
Your Health, Your Career, Your Art Projects, Your Poems, Essays, Your Odd New-Half Interests.
The complicated folds of your sensitivity and darkness, and your belief in a world that wants you to be happy.
~ Heather Havrilesky
