I’m going to ask you to do something that may be difficult and upsetting, but these kinds of conversations can never be easy. I want you to take a moment to think about the people that you have lost. Dig deep into the corners of your heart, where you have had to safely store their …
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People are like puzzle pieces. You search and search for the right ones. You pick up a few that don’t fit, and frustratingly place them back in the pile. A few fall on the floor, and you seemingly lose them forever at that point. A few feel absolutely impossible to find. But sometimes, a piece just …
In life, you will find that you have to settle for many things, love should never be one of them. Trust. Unending laughter. Adventures. Passion. A number one fan. An ability to inspire and teach one another. Safety and security. Late night conversations. Mutual respect. Inside jokes. Honesty. Starry nights. A second family. Delicious …
You knew what you were leaving behind. You knew as you packed up your memories into a few empty beer boxes laying around your tiny apartment. You knew as you last hugged the people you spent every minute of the last four years with extra tight, and tried to convince yourselves that nothing would change. …
True friendship knows no bounds…and has no boundaries. 1. Group texts are a way of life. 2. Essentially, if you leave that thing alone for a few hours you come back to fifty messages. 3. Late night phone calls must be answered. 4. Countdowns to the next time you will be seeing each other …
Love is terrifying, and terror is love. How exceptional is falling in love? How breathtakingly incredible. How painful and enchanted it is to have your protected vessel opened. It presents so many chances for overwhelming pain, and also for captivating joy. It’s a double-edged sword that can release your innermost desires and also your deepest …
Wait, did she just say men? Yes, I did. It honestly shouldn’t be so groundbreaking to consider that both genders of one human race encounter similar internal conflicts. I’m a women’s writer, and one of the key issues I see within the field is that some feel separating the two genders is what leads to …
I mean, yeah, thanks for loving me and everything, but if we are being real here… 1. Thank you for continuing to pretend Chipotle is healthy. 2. Thank you for letting me choose to post the photo of us that is very clearly the one that’s better of me. 3. Thank you for every …
“Where in the heck is the cap to this thing?!” These were the words I cried out to the desolate gas station parking lot, as I stood in a suit and heels, holding a massive jug of windshield wiper fluid with snow piling on top of my head. I had just run out of wiper …