“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” — Elizabeth Gilbert (via kari-shma)
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Highlights and Interstices, Jack Gilbert (via helplesslyamazed)
“Realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted.” —
Anna Quindlen (via kari-shma)
//Why waste it?
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[warning: potentially emo content ahead]
what do you do when someone forgets your birthday? not just anyone, but someones that are important to you?
i put others first a lot. go out of my way to do nice things, make little gestures to show i care. so i think it’s okay to look forward to this one day a year when others are to focus on me. except, a few who matter do not.
do you wait, or point it out?
the path of least resistance is obviously to forgive and forget, a phrase i’ve always believed to be a falsity.
it may seem juvenile to say, but my feelings are hurt. i have nowhere to express them but here; i feel petty and yet slightly justified.
i choose to wait. have hope and faith that our friendship can weather this little storm.
and, i regret to say, not go out of my way as often.
i am learning that there is such a thing as too nice, and the payoff can be slim to nonexistent.
We kiss or we wound, still we must come together. -
A poem by the talented David Rakoff that I heard on an older episode of This American Life has embedded itself in my emotions and even gone so far as to change the way I handled a few things since I heard it last week. I must share it. Or hear it here.Nathan, at one of the outlying tables,
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A true blessing.
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Yusss.
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