S O P H I E G 🍁

I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.

Aging, I realized a few things. You can have a love affair that lasts forever, with your work, your art, the beauty of tulips in buckets or bugs raining in your watermelon plate in June. Usually, these are deep and undeniable liaisons but I could never compare them to the deepness of basic, comfortable silences between two people in the same room, the secrecy of inside jokes that are born and raised in a human relationship or with the shameless erotica that you can only get after sharing time, space and memories with a person. Aging, I realize under all these layers I haven’t changed at all since I was fifteen.

Sometimes, the best way to be happy is to learn to let go of things you tried hard to hold on to that are no longer good for you.