Week 6 - I think I'll never see...

[streetnights]

Even now, it is a knife stabbing, pushing, twisting. A wrenching, gut-churning phantom pain, one that I suspect will never fade

Comments

[witches]

oh this is beautiful! it def gets my vote.

[streetnights]

thank you.

[adoptedwriter]

Lovely story. So sad too. Sorry for your loss. AW

[streetnights]

Thanks. I'm glad it happened, though I'm sad it ended.

[theun4givables]

I'm in tears for lots of reasons, but this was utterly beautiful and hit me in a very personal place.

Thank you so much for writing this.

[streetnights]

<3. <3 <3.

[alycewilson]

But to me, building castles in the sky, discovering and sharing treasures of writing and art and music and romance - there is nothing that I would rather do in this world, and nothing I would rather do with the person I love.

I'm with you on this!

It occurs to me that it's easy to romanticize the relationships that didn't work out. Sometimes, it's more challenging to appreciate the day-to-day mundane lives you live with a long-term partner. My life's challenge, I think, is to appreciate what I have at the moment that I have it.

[streetnights]

I think it's easy to romanticize anything in the past - you gloss over all the nitpicks and just focus on the big feelings (absence makes the heart grow fonder, and all that).

Even so, though, I think there's something about really intense emotions that don't fade over time, whether you're still with the other or not.

[alycewilson]

Agreed. There are people in my life whom I will always love, even though those relationships were doomed from the start.

[myrna_bird]

Heartfelt. Just lovely.

[streetnights]

Thank you kindly!