October 16, 2010

• one.
  Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

  two.
  I don’t want to get to the end. Or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings, and pop cans, and errands, and receipts, and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines, and sing out loud in the car with the windows open, and wear pink shoes, and stay up all night laughing, and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets, and throw parties, and eat ripe tomatoes, and read books so good they make me jump up and down.

  three.
  What if this time, I don’t say hi first? What if this time, I don’t text you back? What if this time, I leave you wondering? Yeah what if this time, your the one left feeling fucked over.

  four.
  She had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

  five.
  People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

  six.
  Sweetheart, you can’t bullshit me. See, I’ve lied to myself enough to know when someone else is doing it. So let’s try this again, and how about the truth this time.

  seven.
  I don’t know what love is. I’ve never been in it, to tell you the truth. But I thought I have been, but I guess that’s it. If you have to wonder if it’s the real deal, then it’s not.

  eight.
  Sometimes it’s tough being a girl. If you hate a pretty girl, people will think you’re jealous. If you like an older guy, people will call you a slut. Whenever you get into an argument with your best friend, no one will care and say, “Oh, you’ll be friends tomorrow.” And when you fall for the right person, everyone else thinks he’s wrong for you.

  nine.
  What if I said you never mattered, that I never lost a moment of sleep. What if I crushed all your dreams, broke all the promises I swore to keep. Tell me how your life would be, if I did to you what you did to me?

  • 10:20 pm
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