Living For Love

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Those words felt like a stab in my heart, but they were words that I desperately needed to hear. There is no finish line to my problems. It’s not possible to get through a certain point in life and have my problems simply disappear. And it’s unhealthy to think that way. Up to that point in my life, that’s what I though recovery was. I thought it was like working your way forward until it seems like your problems never existed in the first place.

No matter what your garden looks like in the beginning, you have to weed it before it can grow into what you want it to be. And when your flowers are planted and growing, you still have to keep up with the weeding. You have to keep up with the weeding even after your flowers are tall. A garden can’t survive on its own. There will always be weeds.

But there will be flowers, too, if you give them space to grow. Give them room, give them time, and keep checking in to make sure the weeds don’t get too tall. You will always have weeds, but you will also have flowers.

And maybe your garden doesn’t look exactly like you imagined it would. Maybe you aren’t sure how to get rid of that one big thistle in the corner. Maybe you’ve got bindweed and nutgrass (which will always, always come back). Either way, you’ve got flowers now, and it’s a nice place to sit and look around, and it looks nicer than it did before, and it’s yours. Keep going with it. If you miss a few days, or months, or years, that’s okay. Pull up the weeds when you’re ready, uncover your old flowers and plant some new ones, and keep going.

First images of Ruth Negga as Hamlet (Gate Theater Dublin, 27 Sept-13 Oct 2018)

“Negga is a princely Hamlet, full of gracious entitlement, capricious and deeply wounded. This is a gruelling performance; three-and-a-half hours, with Hamlet on stage most of the time, other than a brief respite in Act Four.

First images of Ruth Negga as Hamlet (Gate Theater Dublin, 27 Sept-13 Oct 2018)

“Negga is a princely Hamlet, full of gracious entitlement, capricious and deeply wounded. This is a gruelling performance; three-and-a-half hours, with Hamlet on stage most of the time, other than a brief respite in Act Four.

I dim the lights remotely as we hear Cate Blanchett say, “The world is changed. I feel it in the water.”

Too late, they realise.

The pregnancy? A scam.

The Lord of the Rings editions? Extended.

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