She’s always there for me, Or, at any rate, she always is on top of my love life. Making sure I get what I need. At least that’s what I tell myself. It’s most definitely a need, not a want. “Want” sounds so….unnecessary. Everyone needs to be used until they fall down in a pile of exhaustion, right? okay, …
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Feelings are a funny thing. I understand this is becoming more and more common wisdom. I’m grateful for this. Feelings shouldn’t be confused for fact. Still, I don’t believe we can talk about this too much. Because how you feel is real. How she feels is real. How he feels is real. Those feelings could …
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People don’t always remember what’s happened very well. History may be real, but how we recall it is…complicated. But, as I’ve spoken with people over time, I find we all remember how we felt with a person. Whether they made us feel good, stressed, jubilant, terrified. We remember the feelings.
Do we let go of the past? I originally posed this question to myself as, “Do we owe forgiveness?” But I tend to agree with the saying, “Forgiveness isn’t for them. It’s for you.” I would advocate for forgiveness, because otherwise the bad feelings eat you up. But because of that, the forgiveness comes from …
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“Because if i don’t [write my book] then that means all the damage I got wasn’t good damage it’s just damage. I have gotten nothing out of it, and all those years, I was miserable for nothing. I could have been happy this whole time…what was it all for?” Bojack Horseman, S6E10, Diane Sometimes we …
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My friend shared a story. She’s an emotional person, empathetic, thinks with her heart. Also happens to be a hard skills, no nonsense, get the job done career woman. But– she has a soft spot within a relatively hard exterior, I think. Like a caramel M&M. She just pulled over, in her car, today. And …
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Are some of us superbeings? Stronger, faster, able to leap tall buildings? More capable of empathy, love, devotion, honesty? Are some of us more perfectly suited to succeed and be happy? Some would say that those of us that fall into a terrible place did so because it couldn’t be helped. They pity these …
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This may not be my best writing, but I wanted to push the words outside of myself, where they’d sit and fester.