Big Picture: We Love Each Other
A New Story
Growing Pains: Discovering Wholeheartedness as a CollegE Student
How is a college student to stumble into wholeheartedness? He or she is to embark on a journey to feel and accept the entire spectrum of emotions that exist, instead of parsing out which emotions are convenient or productive. He or she is to welcome a life that permits slowing down as a revolutionary act of self-care. He or she is to tirelessly walk laps around the world while walking a mile in others’ shoes. He or she is to start living from the heart, and not just the mind.
Table For One, Please!
I realized that this summer will be the first in quite some time that I fully intend on being single. No boyfriend. No one I’m “talking” to. No interest in the whole Tinder/dating apps scene. Basically, my internet besties, we’ve got no prospects. And it’s (largely) by design.
Written in The Sand
I realized that there are kinds of love that have the capacity to move oceans, and there are others that can move sand. There are loves that build lives together; there are loves that build houses out of sand together.
“My mom always warned me about people in glass houses, but no one ever told me not to live in a castle made of sand.”
When Loving Someone Means Letting Them Go…
Love alone isn’t reason enough to withstand a million duller blows to the heart a day as you wait for the day that you will part with your SO, just to keep them in your life another day longer. Love alone isn’t reason enough to override your brain’s warnings of why it is time. Love alone isn’t reason enough to hold someone back from going off on their own, from being the main character of their lives. Love alone isn’t reason enough to avoid the growth that is in store for you, the calls you are hearing to come home to yourself.