I Couldn’t Save Him
In a roundabout way, he was just saying help. I didn’t want to.
In a roundabout way, he was just saying help. I didn’t want to.
We’re afraid the ultimate attainment won’t be enough to quiet our nerves and settle us into ourselves.
You will never be prepared for heartache. You just have to plunge in and figure out how to breakthrough.
It was the summer I expected would break my heart but which instead insisted on me to mend myself, to feel at home with myself again.
Every story about one human heart grasping for another’s has left me aspiring to do a greater job at taking hold of the heart which is my own.
Our relationships are sustained and empowered by truth. If you are interested in someone and convey that interest, you won’t look boring, you will look interested.
He just doesn’t know how to show up fully—vulnerably and not self-consciously—and he doesn’t know how to do that for anyone yet. That’s what we are witnessing: someone who is missing a sense of self but can’t say why or when they will have it.
I’m here to tell you that the world gives you what you need when you stop leaving it. The world rewards you when you finally stand for yourself. So, stop running. Stop running away so the world can love you.
To keep yourself from lingering, to keep yourself available to greater love, you must give into loss. Give into the prospect that life is moving you along.
Fear has never been enough to bring you to me or make you stay.