This Is Why I Don’t Know What Love Is
This is why I’m not sure what it’s supposed to look like or feel like because everywhere I turn I am told it is not what I think it is.
This is why I’m not sure what it’s supposed to look like or feel like because everywhere I turn I am told it is not what I think it is.
One night, as I gasped myself awake from loud and vivid dreams, I heard a voice. It was a low voice, vibrating with intensity, shaking and piercing me. It almost seemed as though I heard it not from my ears, but from somewhere deep inside of me.
Hope is expectation. Belief is acceptance. Belief says you are a champion, you have what it takes.
I get why some people might take advantage of someone who is clearly trying to fix them and not asking for anything in return.
“In the pantheon of crude, ethnoracial stereotypes, the “redneck” is perhaps the last acceptable target for wide-scale derision. “
“If we’re emotional, everyone automatically assumes we’re on our period. Like I’m allowed to cry and have feelings when I’m not menstruating.”
I’m beautiful even when I don’t look beautiful. Because it’s never about how I look. It’s in the way I feel, in the way I carry myself, do my things and treat others.
Dating casually wasn’t trying to teach me about love: it was trying to teach me about fun, about confidence, about endless choices. It did its job, because I did have fun.
It takes about two seconds to send this text, and it was most likely fueled by alcohol or boredom.
Still being able to use Wikipedia in your research papers, because teachers had not yet realized that it was not a credible source.
Maybe that’s just how true love operates. As two people conquer test after test, choosing forgiveness in the name of staying together, they grow stronger as a unit.
No matter how much you want to tell guys you’re “not playing games” or “not to bother messaging if they’re just DTF”, don’t. Your ruling out a lot more than the DTF’s by doing so.
“I gave the bride her something borrowed. But I didn’t tell her it was from my marriage that didn’t work out…”
Know that she’s hesitant because she doesn’t want her feelings to scare you as much as they scare her.