Smiles everyone smiles. Maybe it's just that easy. Perhaps if we could all just decide to feel good and happy and satisfied with life in it's many incarnations than we would.
I have a feeling this is one of those things that is quite simple to grasp but not at all easy to do, like creating good art.
I thank you all for being out there.
Edited moments later to say:
No, damn it. The realization that love is not always enough is not one that I wanted to have. It is a lesson I would have liked to live my whole quixotic existence without learning. I feel shaken to my core. I doubt everything I thought I knew. If love is not enough to keep two people together forever and I now know it is not than I feel like the belief structure on which I have built my life is flawed. I feel like I am teetering atop a cracked foundation waiting for the inevidable crumble. I don't understand how or why to go on or in which direction to move. It all seems meaningless to me now. I think I'm having an existential breakdown. I can't be. Something tells me if I was having a real existential breakdown that I wouldn't know it.
I have a feeling this is one of those things that is quite simple to grasp but not at all easy to do, like creating good art.
I thank you all for being out there.
Edited moments later to say:
No, damn it. The realization that love is not always enough is not one that I wanted to have. It is a lesson I would have liked to live my whole quixotic existence without learning. I feel shaken to my core. I doubt everything I thought I knew. If love is not enough to keep two people together forever and I now know it is not than I feel like the belief structure on which I have built my life is flawed. I feel like I am teetering atop a cracked foundation waiting for the inevidable crumble. I don't understand how or why to go on or in which direction to move. It all seems meaningless to me now. I think I'm having an existential breakdown. I can't be. Something tells me if I was having a real existential breakdown that I wouldn't know it.
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And love may not be far behind.
Love is not enough to keep two people together. And it was a hard lesson to learn how to care about someone without actually being with someone.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that love is the only emotion, once re-discovered, capable of making you forget you even even had any idea about what it was in the first place.
Or something like that. I forget.
And before you fall in love again... before you find another person to fill your life... before you move away from the dreary northeast (and you should... really... come back that is)...
You're going to remember how much you loved yourself during the time you were in love with somebody else.
Then you're going to realize that you're the same incredible, amazing person you were back then...
and you'll love yourself again.
Then everything else falls into place. Someone else falls in to take up space.
I promise.