so this is suffering/heartbreak
“I pull up my grief to every table I sit at”
loneliness goes beyond physical isolation; it's also the profound sense of emotional disconnection we feel from those around us. those surface-level conversations that leave you craving something deeper, the feeling of not being truly seen or heard, and the sting of having your heartfelt bids for connection dismissed or rejected.
ayandastood • Good Listeners
Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, "goodbye" would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet.
Bethany Dearborn Hiser • From Burned Out to Beloved
Anyone who’s gotten over a heartbreak or a bereavement knows that there aren’t five stages of grief you pass through like they were five whistlestop towns on the train route. You are more this way one day and more that way the other, looping and regressing, and maybe building reconciliation or acceptance like a log cabin while living in sorrow, rat
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Ayishat Akanbi • Sentences That Have Shaped Me
I think unaffected as opposed to untouched is a better definition of youth. There is a persistent resilience, intentional or not, of a youthful spirit.
I did not dream of him, as I said. I did not braid his name with mine. At night we lay together, and by midnight he was gone,