Kirsten Corley

I still remember exactly how horrible it felt to watch love leave like I was to blame for some ending that blindsided me.

I always tried incredibly hard to get people to like me as if I had something to prove. But the more I tried; the more people didn’t.

When we love someone, I don’t think it’s the kind of thing that ever entirely goes away even when that person does. It would be a beautiful thing to see love reciprocated every time.

Sometimes my most anxious moments feel like it’s a boxing match of me vs. my mind and when I allow myself to go down the rabbit hole of negative thoughts, what happens is self-doubt.

And when you choose to love, I hope it’s the kind of thing that feels like Saturday mornings in baggy clothes making waffles in the kitchen as your song plays in the background.

It isn’t your job to always be the strong one, and people shouldn’t expect that of you.

Anyone who doesn’t choose you cannot possibly be meant for you. It seems like an easy concept. But when the heart is involved, logic and reasoning don’t matter.

If you look at trauma or the person who inflicted pain upon you through lenses with empathy and understanding, that is the gateway to healing.

When you finally find the right partner, your life is going to change for the better.

It’s okay if your heart aches for something you don’t even remember anymore. Longing for love, which seems like it might have skipped you along the way. And you’re watching, waiting, and hoping for something and anything.

1. When losing a friendship doesn’t mean you have gained an enemy.

Sometimes people miss the way you made them feel about themselves.

No one talks about how loud silence is when the person you want to hear from most doesn’t reach out.

When you’re the girl who is too familiar with a love that leaves what you learn to appreciate and admire are every relationship you see that’s good, that lasts because it’s those people that give you hope.

I’ve learned lately that we are all going to miss someone at some point and it doesn’t make you weak it just proves love was real even in their absence.

Maybe I needed to lose what felt like everything at the time to realize I still had a lot.

When you break up with someone with an anxiety disorder, it doesn’t end at the breakup; there is a whole other storm that follows, where it’s the individual against themselves.

I want you to remember how long you stared at your phone hoping it would ring only it didn’t.