There's this kind of unexplainable hopefulness that comes with not knowing what your future holds. It's like anything is possible and anything that you do could set off a long series of events that take you to some amazing place. Like nothing is a coincidence because it's all leading you to that one moment. That moment where it all hits you. This is what you want to for the rest of your life. This is your future, and your almost there

I can feel myself slipping
And I'm trying so hard
To hold on
To the good

But my past
Is holding me back,
And I'm not sure
I can recover from it.

I'm drowning
In sadness and fear
Again.

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking romantic love is the only type that hurts. Because a friend's judgmental looks can feel like a stab in the gut, a parent's disapproval could make you feel worthless, and a siblings backhanded compliment can feel like a smack in the face. No matter what kind of love it is, you open yourself up to that person. And as with any kind of love, it is those people who can hurt you the most. Loving people is exhausting. And loosing friends you once loved can hurt more than anything else in the world.

We spend most of our lives
Missing things
And people
And places.
Because you never know
What you have
Until it leaves you
And then you miss it
As if you actually
Appreciated it in the first place

Life is so much more than what is happening right now.
Life is so much more than where you have been, and life is so much more than where you are going. Your life is the sum of your past, present and future. Not one defines you

one of the worst feelings, it turns out, is the ache of loss for something that is not yet gone