Blendedwhiskey - Existential Longing

“You came into my life—not as one comes to visit (you know, not ‘taking one’s hat off’) but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps. Fate wanted to correct its mistake. Fate wanted to correct its mistake—as if it has asked my forgiveness for all its previous deceptions.”

— “Letters to Véra” Vladimir Nabokov. 1923. (via themovinglip)

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“…to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken—I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Marie Howe, from Magdalene: Poems; “Walking Home”

the hardest part was letting go of the potential

of everything I thought you could be. 

I made you out to be so much more than what you actually were. 

I fell in love with a version of you that only existed in my head. 

I was holding onto this unrealistic version of you. 

it wasn’t hard to let go of someone who mistreated, 

abused,

walked over, 

underappreciated,

devalued, 

and neglected me.

it wasn’t hard to let go of somebody who brought me to my lowest. 

it was hard to let go of the hope that you would change. 

it was hard to let go of the potential I fell in love with. 

it was hard to let go of everything I thought you could be.

unfortunately if you are an old friend of mine i will always care about you no matter what even if we haven't seen each other in forever because i still remember what you were like 7 years ago and i still remember how it felt to be young with you and i still have a lot of love for you in the back of my mind