Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.
I’d promised myself that I’d really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.
When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much you’ve already done.
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after. " Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.