"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, May 15, 2011

"Go after her. Fuck, don't sit there and wait for her to call. Go after her because that's what you should do if you love someone. Don't wait for them to give you a sign because it might never come. Don't let people happen to you. Don't let me happen to you, or her. She's not a fucking television show or a tornado. There are people I might have loved, had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I'd be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest. And making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3,000 miles on four days notice because you can't just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone's idea of love, but it is the way I can recognize it, because it is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is what loving someone is. That is raw and that is unguarded and that is all that is worth anything, really."

The rambling thoughts of some insignificant person who knew the right way to live.

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