How To Hold Onto Your Happiness
Because happiness is presented to us as such an illusive concept, something that only the truly lucky chance upon, we seem to forget what to actually do with it if we get there.
Because happiness is presented to us as such an illusive concept, something that only the truly lucky chance upon, we seem to forget what to actually do with it if we get there.
“Okay but like, if you were on a desert island and all there was to eat was bacon…”
It’s something we learn as little kids: to play nice, not hit one another, not lash out, and not call each other names when we don’t get our way.
To live, we have to try to connect with those souls we see, the ones in our friends and family and acquaintances and even in strangers. Especially the lost ones.
One cultural standard of beauty isn’t all there is to being a woman, and to get hung up on appearance is to miss all of the potential that lies within just being a person, for starters, whatever your outer wrappings.
Get used to sweaty, salty hugs. There will be a lot of them.
Dating someone in a different borough seems easy enough at first, but soon enough, you’ll come to think of it as something akin to a long-distance relationship.
Because if you don’t pause, you’ll break. You’ll snap in two, and it’ll be hard to put yourself back together.
We do things not because we already know how to do them, but because one of the only ways to learn to do something well is to just try anyway.
We take stabs in the dark as often as we try for educated guesses, and some attempts just look smoother than others.