Remember To Live

i-wrotethisforme:

There’s a time to give up on relationships or “situationships,” if you will. No matter how bad you might want to, if they’re not answering you or they seem uninterested, you don’t have to push them. The harsh truth is if you think they don’t like you, you’re probably right. And people are allowed to not feel the same way about you, it just means they aren’t the right person for you and it was never going to work out. What hurts is that they realized it first. But those are the people you have to let go of because you don’t want to be with someone you have to force to like you when there’s someone out there who will think loving you is the easiest thing in the world.

fallingwithjoy:

“What if he stares at you every time you look away?”

— - late night thoughts

schnapsliebe:

“When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.”

— Alan Cohen (via wordsnquotes)

(Source: wordsnquotes.com, via do-it-for-yourself-xx)

relatablepoetryandquotes:

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They may not mean to, but they do.“

- Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse

i-wrotethisforme:

My PIN number to this day is my second grade best friends birthday. There are people I don’t talk to anymore whose families are still in my prayers. There are shirts I wear to bed from exes of 8 years ago who are married now with kids. And I haven’t found a macaroni salad recipe better than my college boyfriend’s mom’s. Our lives are made up of so many people and when people become parts of our lives, some parts remain long after they leave. And in the same exact way, it’s comforting to know there are so many lives you’re still a part of that you have no idea about.

championsaremade:

sa2ha:

Am i in love or do i just feel seen by them

this is important to ask

i-wrotethisforme:

There’s always going to be someone else. Someone that’s better for you. I told that to my ex when he was crying for me to take him back, I tell that to my friends when they’re going through breakups, and I tell that to myself whenever I need to hear it-which is often and always the hardest. But we always, always move on and love again and those low points we thought we’d never get past, well they always become distant memories. Because the amazing thing about us as humans is we’re capable of loving more than one person in our lifetime and our feelings are capable of change. So even if you really did love someone with all your heart, it doesn’t mean you can’t use all your heart again to love someone else.

(via i-wrotethisforme)

i-wrotethisforme:

“I really want to believe that one day I’ll meet someone and have no doubts that I’m supposed to be with him for the rest of my life and that he’d never hurt me and that I can completely be myself around him. But until then I’ll keep texting boys I’m already over and getting drunk with boys I’m not sure about and learning lessons that I really need to learn.”

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(via i-wrotethisforme)

i-wrotethisforme:

One of the hardest realizations to face is that someone you’ve invested a lot of time into isn’t the right one for you or isn’t who you thought. Because think about it like this: you’re painting a picture and you go out and you buy the expensive canvas and tons of paint, all different colors, and you spend years on this one painting, making sure everything’s perfect, fixing mistakes, adding and subtracting details, redoing and re-examining, and this painting is all you have to show for the past, say 6, years of your life because it’s what you’ve invested all your free time into and money and effort and tears and frustrations. And then to be faced with the decision to destroy it- no matter how mad it’s making you, even if it came out completely wrong- I just don’t think you could. And that’s why people stay in relationships with people that might not be the best for them. Because after spending 6 years on one painting, the thought of having to start from scratch on a blank canvas is more daunting and overwhelming and terrifying than having to look at a mediocre painting every day for the rest of your life.