ask people what it’s like to be them

12 year old hurt is not so far from 22 year old hurt is not so far from the ache you feel at 25 seeing three of your childhood friends in one day. i have always chased love and now it comes to me so easily and abundantly that i don’t know how to hold it all at once. dear bryce, i loved your christmas gift and i already miss you. one of my oldest friends, i have loved you since i was 5, i am so lucky to have you in my life

I tried really hard. I didn’t really expect I’d even have a shot getting into either contests’ honorable mentions at the very least, but then I let myself have a small amount of hope. I lost both. I suck at writing. At least I tried, I guess, instead of flaking out. One silver lining. I haven’t written anything like that in a long time.

bloom where you are planted and we’ll never take the sun for granted again

it’s always like i never left, except there’s new furniture or dish-ware and the parental units are slightly mellower.