a slight figure of speech.

My only regret is that no one told me at the beginning of my journey what I’m telling you now: there will be an end to your pain. And once you’ve released all those pent-up emotions, you will experience a lightness and buoyancy you haven’t felt since you were a very young child. The past will no longer feel like a lode of radioactive ore contaminating the present, and you will be able to respond appropriately to present-day events. You will feel angry when someone infringes on your territory, but you won’t overreact. You will feel sad when something bad happens to you, but you won’t sink into despair. You will feel joy when you have a good day, and your happiness won’t be clouded with guilt. You, too, will have succeeded in making history, history.

someone: *driving next to me in the other lane at the exact same speed*

Hold me tenderly, and hold me all together. I’m pieces alone.

And in the middle of my chaos, there is you.

The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

“I learned the hard way that I cannot always count on others to respect my feelings, even if I respect theirs. Being a good person doesn’t guarantee that others will be good people. You only have control over yourself and how you choose to be as a person. As for others, you can only choose to accept them or walk away.”

She looked like a Saturday in October.

Don’t you love when you walk into a coffee shop and you just smell all the beans and everyone is smiling? That’s home to me