“Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”— John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
“The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget about you.”— The Notebook
“Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you.”— Clairabelle Ann
— Adrienne Rich, from “Integrity.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, from “Report To Greco.”
— Love poetry discovered by Archaeologists in Egypt from the New Kingdom period 3,300 years ago.
[TEXT ID: I shall lie down at home / and pretend to be dying. / Then the neighbors will all come in / to gape at me, and, perhaps, she will come / with them. / When she comes, I won’t need a doctor, / she knows why I am ill. END ID]
i’d say the best thing i have learned this year is to just let people be who they naturally are. no psychoanalyzing them, no overthinking my actions, no asking what i could possibly do to keep their presence in my life. i just bring my best self to the table and always move from a place of love and respect. how that person responds is ultimately up to them. if that causes them to exit my life, i just let it happen. i will never be in the business of changing people. people are only ever ready to change when they’ve made the conscious decision to. all i can do is check myself and be kind always.