Life lessons I’m learning in my 20s: Relationships aren’t just about who makes you happy, while very integral, happiness is fleeting, our emotions are always changing. Depending on someone to make you happy can create a very toxic situation. Rather the focus should be on who helps you learn and grow, who supports you while you work on yourself and who you can be honest with and trust. That’s love.
“Twenty year later, sitting here in my body, I have come home. This is it: this body is home. This is where I live and hang my hat. This is where I settle into my hips and sit easy with myself, slung together with strong muscles and bones, made gentle and forgiving with flesh. This body is durable, has lasted for years, hunkered down through fierce storms and allowed for the peaceful erosions of age. It is like a cottage on the shore: weathered and well made, a place where a person could comfortably live. I like it here. It is my own.”— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted; Second Edition, Afterward.
(via unspokengrief)
“You could have had me forever if you had wanted me,”— Iris Murdoch, from “Under The Net,” published c. September 1954
