"Pick a road, any road and follow it. Follow it for the rest of your life. No expectations. Just possibilities. When ya leaving?" -Charles Knight

It's just a race. Right? But a part of me just died.

I haven't done this in a while. I still talk to you every time I go to mass, that's really the only reason I go now. I don't pay attention, I could never tell you what the homily was about, I simply go through the motions. I get agitated by the time the second reading starts and then im fidgeting and playing with my hands to keep the memories at ( Read more... )

There's a knot in my stomach as I enter the room. I walk around her bed to the chair. I sit by her bedside as the cool mint blue walls close in around me. I reach out and hold her hand. I say nothing. She sleeps. Hours pass ( Read more... )

Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to great people. Bad things happen to the sweetest, most wonderful girl in the world. Not a lot of bad things. She's had good luck so far, just the usual growing up mishaps. But this is big. This is different. This is something that makes me question so much of what I have believed in. It can't ( Read more... )

I'm just going through the motions. This summer has brought me no joy, no anger, nothing. I've forgotten what its like to feel anything but tired. I've forgotten what it's like to feel alive.

I need to get my fight back.

I'm ready for a change of scenery.

Cape Cod here I come!

"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender." - Emil Ludwig

I don't belong here. I have never felt like I have belonged here. Yes I have friends here. Yes I went to a great high school here. Yes I have some of my favorite memories from here. I grew up here. But I don't belong here. I have never quite fit in with this way of life. I come back here every break and every time I feel more distant from the ( Read more... )