On impulse, I threw the notebook in the trash bag and began to drag it out of the shed. That journal was a joke gone wrong and I felt that nobody really needed to see it. Spencer would probably prefer it if I threw it out, anyway.
It’s not that introverts don’t want to fall in love; it’s not that introverts don’t want to spend time in the company of someone we admire. It’s just that we enjoy the company of the world more. Our solitude is stunning.
“Every time I go to a wedding there’s always a guarantee that there will be the one couple who tears it up on the dance floor all night and you can tell they are having a complete blast together. That’s definitely the first thing that comes to mind for me. I want that.”
I’m sorry I can’t love you, even with your solid efforts to convince me differently. Convince me to see you for everything you are. Convince me, you are the one for me.
I cut the engines, trusting my ship’s forward momentum to take me the rest of the way to the stranger. I didn’t want to risk overshooting and having to turn around. I had the strange feeling I’d only get one chance.
I want to believe that everyone is good. I want to believe that no one is out to hurt me. I want to believe that no one would want to ever harm me. But there are people out there who won’t take no for an answer. There are people out there who want to hurt you just like you hurt them.
I hope you know I’ll never regret you. I’ll never look back on my life and close my eyes to our memories. I will never wish you didn’t exist. You were my first love, and quite possibly the love of my life. You were everything to me once. And so, you will be something to me always.
I promise to be the one to handle the food delivery order whenever you’re more hungover than me.
She found someone who is crazy about her, actually head over heels crazy about her. He constantly looks at her like she’s the only person in the world.
I’ve learned that wandering means letting go, means embracing a new life, a new culture, a new schedule, a new experience. It means learning to be unafraid of what’s around you, or even what’s coming next.
I hope you get well soon because the world needs you – because I need you. The world needs people with your kindness and compassion and the world needs people who still know how to love unconditionally without asking for anything in return.
“It quickly escalates to Mr. Krabs tormenting Plankton to the point where he never leaves the Chum Bucket, has nightmares, and eventually attempts suicide. I am not exaggerating at all.”
“He asked me questions about my physical appearance and then started asking me creepy things like if I had pubic hair or wore a bra.”
I’ve grown to love myself with all my flaws so that I can learn to love others for their flaws.
When you say goodbye, you will feel a weight lift of your back. You will feel lighter. Your heart will be happier. Because for once, you actually listened to it. And you listened to yourself without second guessing your gut. You finally, loved yourself enough to do what was right for you.
Because the real problem is being someone you’re not to please someone else. The real problem is lying to someone else and to yourself about how you feel.
Fall in love with a person who’s going to crack jokes at the worst times, who’s going to connect with your sense of humor, who’s going to turn your anxiousness into ease, your fear into confidence.
