May 27, 2012

• Red solo cup

  

  Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you’ve lived well, your smile lines are in the right place and your frown linesaren’t too bad. What more do you need?

  

  

  

  

  

  Did you ever notice that people give up on love as they get older? When you’re a little girl, all you want to do is fall in love. Then when you’re a teenager, every guy you meet you think is the one. Then when you’re an adult and you’ve beenhurt from the breakups as a teen, you’re not interested in love anymore. You just don’t want to be alone, so you settlefor someone you might even know isn’t your soulmate. I know so many adults that aren’t truly where they want to be. I just try to think about what they might have went through to make them settle for second best, and I hope that doesn’t happen to me.

  

  

  

  

  

  You might be upset and I’m sure you have a reason to be, but how many reasons do you have to be happy? A lot more.

  

  

  

  

  

  Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are. A price for everything.

  

  

  

  

  

  You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it’s there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

  

  

  

  

  

  You can’t put one relationship on hold for another. It’s like call waiting; if you leave one person on hold long enough, they’re going to hang up.

  

  

  

  

  Words and hearts are the two things that should be handled with care because if words are spoken and hearts are broken, they are the hardest things to repair.

  

  

  

  

  

  You said you didn’t want to be with me because you were afraid of getting hurt. Well, that’s exactly why we should be together. We both fear heartache so much, we would never dare hurt one another.

  

  

  

  

  

  When we were little, we had dreams of being big rockstars and doctors. Now life has changed and those dreams havefaded. Now we’re just hoping we make it.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Life isn’t supposed to make you feel good. Life isn’t supposed to make you feel miserable. Life is just meant to make you feel.

  

  

  

  

  

  Everyone has a chance to make things right. It’s all just a matter of seeing the opportunities as they come.

  

  

  

  

  

  Love is a funny thing. You expect it to be easy. You expect it to be a world of roses and laughs and perfect momentsthat you find only in movies. You expect him to always say the right thing and always know exactly how you feel or how to react to it. You expect him to calm you down when you’re yelling or to chase you when you run away. You expect so much that you feel entirely and utterly defeated when something doesn’t exactly match up with all your plans. But that’s the thing, love isn’t a plan. It doesn’t have a certain beginning and it certainly has no end of a visible finish line to those deeply in it. Love happens and it’s so incredibly messy.

  

  

  

  

  

  I didn’t walk away because I fell out of love. I left because I was tired of fooling myself into thinking that this was anything like love.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  People worry about our kids playing with guns and teenagers watching violent videos. We’re scared that some sort ofculture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about the kids listening to thousands of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

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