Ever met someone who was so sure life would be perfect- if you weren’t in it? Someone who believes you to be the cause of all their problems. Someone who tries to pretend you don’t exist. Someone who has convinced themselves that you aren’t real. ….but their troubles are their own. Their life is their …
to the person who believes life would be better if you went away Read More »
“You won,” my friend says. And I guess I needed to hear that message. After all the shit we’ve been through, what we’re left with today is nothing more than what we started out with a decade ago. But it’s different. It doesn’t look different, but it feels different. Sometimes winning simply means getting back …
it doesn’t feel like winning today Read More »
I’ve never had that overwhelming life defining moment. Things just kept happening. That was all. I’ve never had the wedding day, nerve wracking graduation (yes, I graduated, but just bachelor’s, nothing special), or the birth of my child. I’ve had very good days and very bad days. Or I’ve had days I floated on my …
do i want the happily ever after? Read More »
She is wild, unpredictable, but she calls to me and her voice is soothing and sweet among the crashing waves. She sings to me, sometimes it feels only me. Yet I know she is singing to any and all who dare to approach her. I miss the ocean. It’s lovely to have water nearby, but …
chasing the ocean, the ocean chases me Read More »
It’s tempting, I’ll admit. When someone hopes desperately that I am the evil, horrible, no good person they want me to be. But why would they want that, you say? If it’s happened to you, you already know the answer to this. Thankfully, not all of us have. Because if you are that person, you see, it …
don’t be the worse version they want you to be Read More »
I’m speaking with a friend about someone who has hurt them. And they tell me, But the thing is… And those words reverberate in my head, But the thing is…But the thing is…But the thing is… I am sure I am not alone in having a poisonous ex or two. By which I mean, they …
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