Tarik Fabrizio Kheraifia

You watch her walk away and it hits you that she is an entire ocean and you were wrong, so very wrong, because you let her go thinking she was just a girl.

I learned that what you really loved was an idea. You truly did love that idea, and still do. I’m not an idea, I’m not a fantasy, and I’m not the cookie-cutter of a relationship that you want. I learned that what you want is someone, anyone. And I don’t think you’ve figured that out yet. I hope you figure out what you want, because what you’ve taught me is that I want more. I need more. I deserve someone as unique and different and deep as me. I’m worth more than the cookie-cutter of a relationship. I’m worth more than an idea.

In whatever you choose to do, do it because it’s hard, not because it’s easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That’s what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you’re the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.