I cannot describe how you were silly, yet serious and hardened by mere months in the Army; how you were so young, yet could talk of war and brotherhood and faith with the power and feeling of a man who has known a million years of suffering.
You will have a night where you have to take care of a friend who got way drunker than expected.
You are sad and you are lost, and I will do anything for you. I will stay up until 3 AM…
Because when you fall asleep at night under a billion stars, on rocks that are a million years old, with people you have nothing in common with besides the pure unadulterated fact that you are all witnessing the beginnings of time, you don’t remember.
I love you like I love plane rides in the dark, like I love the first song that made me cry. I love you like all the sunsets I’ve ever seen, and so much more than all these things.
So do the things you’ve always dreamed of doing, and feel as alive as you think you need to feel, but never stop reading. Because there are things you can learn from the pages of a book that will teach you so much more tan you will ever learn from real life.
12. For meeting my high school friends from home and embracing them and loving them almost as much as I do.
5. He never gets tired of snuggling (surrogate boyfriend!)
For anyone else like me who has ever been moved by their lyrics, here are some of the saddest, most romantic, and most beautiful ones:
Tell me what the weather was like. Tell me if you killed people. Tell me the names of your friends’ girlfriends and how you passed the time and the color of the sky in the morning. Tell me all the things I never got to ask you, because I want to know.