Two quotes that have been really resonating with me lately:

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings ( Read more... )

"Even when we are 60 and grey and haggard as fuck, you and I will be together you know."

An incredibly beautiful anonymous comment someone left for me on a previous entry that I don't want to get lost in my intermittent LJ entries ( Read more... )

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I'm so frustrated. I feel like I give all myself in my friendships. I am loyal, giving, accepting, not judgmental...and yet I somehow always find myself on the outs with people. I don't get it. I'm exhausted from the constant coming and going of people in my life. I know that's just a part of life but a little consistency, a little stability would ( Read more... )

Maybe it's the fact that I have had 2 weeks of minimal obligations while my friends have been traveling and working...I just seem to have found myself in that state of mind where getting the fuck out of this city is a must ( Read more... )

I'm in Israel. It's beautiful and chaotic. Just how I left it ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99:
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty ( Read more... )

Playgrounds are graveyards and all of our scars are permanent, permanent.
There's no replacement for places,
I'll always love you, you're mine.
Numb is the new high, old memories die out 'till
Nothing and nowhere is golden.

Some say we always only wanting to get off,
Some say our hands are much too soft.
Some say our life is insane;
But it isn't ( Read more... )

I remember when I got the news that my father unexpectedly passed away, the dry erase board on the fridge had "Parent's weekend October 27-28" in his handwriting. He loved me a lot..and I took it for granted. That day still haunts me and I remember every detail of it. I remember driving to FSU's med school for a training to be a student on an anti- ( Read more... )

A giant sigh of relief has just overcome me ( Read more... )