This Is Why The Ending Of An Almost Relationship Still Hurts
I wonder how I can continue to do this to myself. To pretend that I have something that I don’t.
I wonder how I can continue to do this to myself. To pretend that I have something that I don’t.
Deep down you know you deserve better, but you can’t quit and you’re not sure why.
I was trying as hard as I possibly could for him to see me the way I saw him. To love me the way I loved him.
I knew who I was, but it also seemed like I was trying to mold myself into something I wasn’t.
Russia is in an economic crisis. Their military capabilities are on a decline. They severely lack in allies, especially in Europe. And yet, Vladimir Putin is able to perform this weakening hand so incredibly powerfully. This leads to more and more nations, like the Philippines, becoming more attracted to aligning with Moscow (and Beijing) over Washington.
The moment you accept you won’t understand everything and it’s okay to feel dumb sometimes is the moment you don’t measure your intellect by how you are feeling at that very moment.
Whether you go to a school of 500 or 50,000. Whether you’re an athlete or a Pre-Med major – LOVE YOUR SCHOOL. Even if you hate your school, love your school. You’re spending four years (hopefully) of your life there, after all.
It’s the peeling paint on the garage from no primer, the peeling skin on your feet from no shoes. It’s laying in your driveway with nothing to do. It’s your first concussion, your first stitches, breaks, bruises.
Our parents and loved ones will die, and they might die on their birthdays, in a cold hospital. You will have set your alarm the night before and will turn it off in the morning because it won’t matter anymore. Nothing will matter except that you won’t remember the last conversation you had with them.
A good amount of the time, you are allowed to be the “fine, just fine” that you want to be, but for the nature of healthiness, for the justice of fairness, you have to feel something. And when you finally do, what you feel will be much much worse.