“At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.”
— Unknown
every time you assume that others are thinking negatively of you or judging you behind your back, you are bullying yourself through them. at the end of the day, you don't know what thoughts are running through their heads unless they verbally express them to you. until then, every one of 'their' opinions about you is nothing more than your fear, and whatever assumption is born from your fear is yours to let go - not theirs to disprove.
“I could not escape from you. My soul favors you endlessly.””
— Margaret Atwood
so, what now?
“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
“Even forever isn’t enough time to love you.”
— Unknown
"I wish you joy" Jane Austen, from a letter to her brother Frank (26 July 1809)
“a God touch of wind, sun-starched scent that comes to cling to the mind just before a dream, light at dusk now merely a rinse of remembrance for what had been a blue pang of wanting. all day, a perfect sky.” - greg sellers