a boy and a girl are sitting together on a bench after a romantic date. “can i kiss you?” the boy says. the girl nods and the boy pulls out black and white face paint and starts putting it on her face. “you’re going to be gene simmons” he whispers.
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“Life gets a lot easier once you realize that you can miss someone without wanting them back.”
— An excerpt from a book I’ll never write (#5).
“Maybe our paths will cross again in a few years time and you’re breathing will become shallow because you forgot how much you loved my smile and I’ll tell you how in love I was with you back when I was just figuring it all out and you’ll nod and smile and I’ll tell you that breaking my heart was one of the stupidest things you could have done and you’ll nod but you won’t smile this time. Because you’ll realize I’m right. You’ll realize that no one has appreciated you as much as I did and you’ll study my face and wonder why you left because everything was so good, you’ll wonder if you could take it all back and start again, wonder why you thought you could find someone better but those are questions you’ll have to live with because you know it’s too late for us now, but you really wish it wasn’t.”
— unknown
UNREGRETTABLE
When you make a decision, that decision is based on what you know and who you are at that precise moment. If your choice should lead you to an unfavourable outcome, you should not say that you regret your decision, because you acted based on what you knew and felt at the time.
Regrets are an optical illusion, in other words, because they hold unfavourable outcomes of the past accountable to the standard of future knowledge—knowledge gained precisely through your “error.”
The experience of regret does not tell you what you “should have done,” therefore, but registers the difference between a past and a present perspective—the latter of which knows what kind of pitfall to avoid. Regretting, rightly understood, shows you just how far you’ve come.
If something isn’t working, let it go. Flow with your soul’s current, not against it. Sometimes what we want isn’t actually what we need.
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass (via i-am-strong-all-on-my-own)
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