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The Best Loves Are Those Unrequited

9/30/2023

The things we love often don't love us back.

To be more precise: the things we love often cannot love us back.

Your favorite painting in your favorite museum, the short poem you have read obsessively on your mass printed page, the weather that most makes you want to spend the day outside- these cannot love you. Your coffee mug with the perfectly placed chip that your grandma gave you, the sound that comes out when your favorite person laughs, the smell of salt water and sunscreen- all of the things that fill your heart with a fire only love can light. These things cannot love you.

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You Grant the World a Greater Life

9/21/2023

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The world would be smaller without you in it.

There would be one less soul to experience its existence. There would be less ground covered because your feet would not be there to find it. There would be fewer colors to see because your eyes would not be there to see them. The oceans would begin to shallow without your weight. There would be fallen trees that never got the chance to be heard. Everyone, and everything deserves the chance to be heard. There are sounds, sights, touches, feelings- and an infinite number of things more- that exist solely to be experienced by you. They were born for you. They are written in a language that can only ever be read by you. They do not exist the same for anyone else.

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The Erosion of Empathy

9/13/2023

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I worry that I will not be worthy if I am not in pain.

If I am not hurting, how can I be capable of helping?

I used to know the right thing to say. When I sat beside someone tired and trembling from tears, I did not worry about saying something that would cause the sobs to grow louder. When I was met with a person whose face was raging and red with anger, I knew how to scream with them- and I knew what to scream. To create a sense of harmony between myself and someone overcome with emotion was a skill that, at one point, I thought I had. Conceitedly so, maybe- but I would be lying if I said that saying the wrong thing was a common fear of mine.

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The Best Loves Are Those Unrequited

You Grant the World a Greater Life

The Erosion of Empathy

Sharing my humanity

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The Best Loves Are Those Unrequited

You Grant the World a Greater Life

The Erosion of Empathy

Sharing my
humanity