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If it isn't the ending I predicted..

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"There is a part of me that is desperate to know if my absence has done any damage to you. That there is a possibility that you too, experience long restless nights due to the thought of me. That your heart is broken in the same places as mine. I want to know that I'm not the only one hurting from this. I want to know that I actually meant something to you."

— rhythmicrhinoceros

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Lay beside me he said

I asked ......if we can lay in the dusk outside

On the grasses under our favourite tree..............

He nods, .......we got up.... went outside

We lay in the dark ........under our favourite tree

In a blissful stillness..........

.............He whispered, "aren’t you afraid of the dark?"

I smiled softly; for I didn’t have an answer.....

Just wished he can listen to my thoughts ........

For I have greeted worse

From the darkness he envisions unnerving

And to know the dark has become a solace

............Solitude for the thoughts

He nudged waking me from my thoughts .............

Wit  answered

“Baby darkness is just an absence of light, while the sun greets the other sides”

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I jumble through them all

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Him: And She'll be part of me as forever would have allowed it. A pretty brown eyes, and a head full of thoughts. She shall be greatest selfless act, and my favorite regret.

#histhoughts #fromlatenightconversations #redietA

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Thing about sad endings

when I finally start to breathe with you. You are going to start ignoring me I get obsessively triggered; go back to a place I thought I crawled out of. What a circus i tell you

#totheunlovable

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"defend your thesis" why are you attacking my thesis

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Hypothetical eternal state

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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“I hope one day we can forgive each other for not being what we wanted each other to be”

— Kriti G.

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We were together. I forget the rest.

source: annalaura_art