So… I realized something today. The reason why it’s so hard to see your boyfriend/girlfriend’s ex. It’s because they’re a reminder that the person who means the world to you (currently) had a life before you. Even more… Exes are a reminder that they can have a life after you. That they will have a […]
When I was sixteen, my idea of a perfect life was to be a travelling bartender. My goal was to make enough money to move on to the next town and so on, so on, in such a pattern. The point was to travel the world. It wasn’t to be rich or famous or anything […]
Somedays, my fingers remember tracing the contours of your cheeks. Your lips. Your arms. They remember racing through your hair and my lips… Oh, my lips, remember being caught in yours. Somedays, I awake breathless with pain, gasping with bitter longing for something past. Something passed. I remember, and it’s the remembering that hurts most. […]
it doesn’t actually feel like much of an option. but then again, nothing really feels anymore, these days. this crazy empty longing burns a hole inside me. i’ve been reading a lot lately. mostly pretentious stuff. i’ve also been thinking a lot lately, and we all know that’s never good. it recently occurred to me… what my understanding […]
#20. Be in Canada and Stateside at the same time. #19. Re-read the entire Harry Potter series… IN A DAY! #18. Hold a bake sale. #17. Sell lemonade. #16. Dress in primary colours only (including socks) #15. Take pictures of random cloud shapes #14. Buy and finish a 1000 piece puzzle #13. Get on a train and see where you end up #12. Lob […]
I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him – that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. – John Green Deficiency It was supposed to get easier the older I got. Missing you, I mean. I spent years […]
When did relationships become a competition of who could care less, of who could hurt the other more, of who loved the other less? Growing up, I was fed a steady diet of epic love stories that lasted a lifetime. And no, I don’t mean Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty or Hong Kong dramas where the […]
lessons of summer 