Do you want to hear about the Seáin funeral wake tradition? I can tell you about Uncle Thomas’ funeral wake because I remember it in such detail, but also because they were all the same, and there were a lot.
“Her face comes into focus. Half of it is cover in burn marks and blisters, and the other half is charred. The final detail come into view. This part with haunt my thoughts forever. Her eyes, dear god her eyes. They were black. Black as night. “
Gemini. Your extra friendliness. You make friends with anyone and everyone which can sometimes take a toll on the quality time you spend with your friends because you end up talking to strangers all night. It can be hard for your friends to get a hold of you for more than 10 minutes before you find someone else to socialize with.
If you were given an opportunity to sit across from me, look me in the eye, and open the floodgates to an honest discussion, would you take it?
A girl who’s close with her mom doesn’t need her boyfriend to take her shopping. You won’t have to worry about answering the question, “Do these jeans make my butt look big?”
“I have mixed feelings about her, too. She shows me to two sides… since connecting with her, she has a feeling that has remorse, and I feel a side that takes responsibility… and then a feeling that I feel has a relief.”
There was so much more I wanted to learn from you and about you, so much more I wanted to give you. But there’s no need now, because you decided it was over.
I got your message loud and clear in the silence you let grow between us because sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
Meet someone who won’t make you question your thoughts and your feelings. Meet someone who makes you feel safe. Meet someone you are scared to lose every day, but someone who will never let you get lost. Meet someone who doesn’t make you question yourself. Meet someone who makes you realize the magic of living, because that is the whole point.
“Forty two now and had no regrets until a couple years ago. Now I sometimes regret the decision, and wish I could go back and do things differently. Other times, I am glad to not have kids.”
I noticed the moment it all changed when your mind was somewhere else; thinking of something else or someone else.
See, I’m not good at dating, at small talk, at stuffy dinner dates where we skirt around the deep questions because we don’t want to scare each other off. I don’t care if I scare you off. If I can’t know who you are, then why bother sitting across the table, sharing bites of steak and sips of wine and pretending this is going somewhere when it’s not.
