I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.
Our lives disappear, even as we live them.
If you feel lucky, then you are.
It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.
I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.
I just look better in simple black things.