another forgotten soul

“A lot of people tell me I’m a bit dreamy. But I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”

“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.”

“I believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”

“Thank you for misunderstanding me, rejecting me and not seeing me and teaching me to always see myself.”

“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”

“I am afraid I will be like this forever.”

“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”

It's spring, you're young, you're lovely, you have a right to be happy. Come back into the world.

“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”

“No one asks if I’m okay and I’m both grateful and disappointed.”

“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”

“I was calm, no one wants the kind of calm I was.”

“Keep the ones who heard you when you never said a word.”

“I can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in me.”

“That’s the thing about introverts; we wear our chaos in the inside where no-one can see it.”

“Sometimes I sit and realise I am the source of my own insanity. And there is no method to the self torture I inflict upon half healed wounds and old battle scars. Now that is true madness.”

“I feel that I’m cut off from all humankind. I don’t even know how I can last one week. I feel like putting my head on your shoulder and weeping from sheer homesickness.”