understanding

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight._ _ Traci Lea LaRussa

I never said I love you because I knew he would understand it differently. I loved him, and I still do, but it was as a chapter. It wasn__ as a fairytale ending.

Maybe the problem isn__ everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you.

It didn__ affect him because he couldn__ fathom how I felt. He never saw how I held or how I dealt. And when a breeze hits, his first thought is never a scent. We worked in different ways and different places, which were divided by a constellation.

I became to understand you and all of you.

Give second chances, third chances, but not a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and so on. Appreciate yourself and understand your worth _ know it takes time for people to change, to become better. But know what you can take and what you deserve.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it _ do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there.

Silence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.

I went into the new year loving myself in different ways, in a different possibility. It was then that I understood things I hadn__. It was then that I understood people I hadn__. We work in ways where sometimes we don__ align because our intersections lead us elsewhere. We find ourselves in rapids which lead to lightning, in beds that leave us homesick. We lust after the impetuous, in hopelessness, and sometimes in the reactive. We like things and people who are bad for us and that__ fine. It__ fine because it__ life. It happens. They exist. We exist. We all exist together in this world where nothing seems to make sense. Where everything is nothing but imaginary because it__ what we imagine it to be. Reality exists and it__ there, but life is what you make it. Your actions ask for it. How you exist is how you exist.We take every new year and give it a theme because we__e scared of how it could be. You change in the moment, not by years. You be to become and becoming is something which frightens people. Lead by example instead of letting the example lead you. Take this new year and find yourself in people who question it because questioning is how you gain from it.

Life isn__ about building something with someone else. It__ about building something for a cause greater than yourself, but if someone comes along and they__e worthy enough, we let them build with us.

No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.

You__e not supposed to be in a relationship because it__ comfortable, it__ supposed to be because they make you a better person.

I stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn__ for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it.

How you react to a situation says more about you than you know.

Mountains in the distance remind me of you.

When you know, you know and it flows in your mind like waves. Coming forward as it pulls with the tide. It brings anxiety, terror, and it__ beyond anything plausible.

The beauty was nothing made sense. We were complex. We were intricate. We were designed with flaws which seemed to make everything perfect. But the defining word is seem. We don__ see what__ in front of us until it__ away from us. Until it__ behind us. Until it doesn__ bother us. Sometimes things aren__ perfect, yet they appear to be. Sometimes life doesn__ make sense until it does. But it always does.