November 2010
3 posts
There's no shame in expressing your needs...
October 2010
8 posts
Everything is going to be okay.
It’s undeniable. No matter your pain, conflict, or hardship, everything will, in one way or another, eventually be okay. Time has a way of healing wounds, even the ones we haven’t realized affect us. As bitter as the prospect feels, we are able to accept it quietly within our own minds, even if we don’t acknowledge it aloud. The point is, no one denies the future. We only fear...
I often wonder how adulthood will feel. There are moments in which I already feel so grown up, it baffles me to think anything could ever be different. But I’m still living in a figurative world full of “what if”s and fantasies of the future. Will I look back one morning while I’m vacuuming my living room, or watering my plants and think the thoughts and feelings that...
I’m thinking about the kind of life I want to live someday. They’re the kind of thoughts that I’m unclear whether or not I actually want, or if I’d be content enough to write them down somewhere, file them away, and pull them out later when life is particularly monotonous. That’s not really how I want to live my life. I don’t want to close my dreams up in a...
She pulled her feet up to rest on the dashboard, and locked her fingers under knees. Her toes were long and slender. Her nails were painted a dark, metallic gray. On the second toe of her left foot, she wore a silver, infinity toe ring. Through the windshield, the sunlight caught her toe hair, causing it to glimmer faintly. The veins slightly raised under her skin, snaked up the length of her foot...
I’m feeling really brave within my own head. Brilliant, eloquent, courageous words have flooded my mind. If I release them, I will undoubtedly get exactly what I seek. My lips quiver, threatening to part and let them spill out. Alas, I cannot do it. Brave enough to have the thoughts, but never enough to share them.
Sometimes,
winning doesn’t mean you’re the best. Sometimes, winning just means that everyone else sucks more.
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