It's been two years later, and it's deja vu.
You learn to love and learn to move on too.
You can't take what you've learned until you've put it into application.
You can't be the person who stands up and tells people what to do, even if you're a preacher, until you follow your own words and do it yourself.
Twice in one month I've learned to love and let go of myself - there's more to this world than what we can see.
In so many way, relationships are a great mystery,
The first dance where you get to know each other, where you hide parts that you feel insecure or unsafe showing (If I told the truth on everything we wouldn't work out, would we?)
The second dance where you truly get to know each other (I swear I can go on forever)
The third dance is where you learn to work through each other's differences (Please let me know that my one bad day will end)
And the final fourth dance is where you learn to love each other (I'm lost without you).
And I think these truly sum up what we go through, as humanity.
Now this isn't a rule, and definitely isn't a guideline for how relationships work.
Deftly we work our way through our feelings of discontent for the sake of passion.
Remembering life lessons, like it was taught in school, is a good way to move on.
Easy does it, easy does it.
Always be prepared though to be hurt, whenever you are prepared to hit the runway.
I don't always say this, but I never thought I would be the one saying these things.
Seriously, don't we understand the damage constantly picking up and moving on does?
Adorable.
"When we're with someone we think we'll be with forever, our thinking is so two-dimensional -- we see life in terms of "before" and "after" this person. I think what makes heartbreak and loss so hard is the stretching of your mind to include three dimensions instead of two -- forever always existed, just different than you imagined it. It's like when you're walking down a staircase and you think there's one more step so you step down, and your foot collides with the wood floor -- hard. It was always there. You just never saw it. You couldn't. The harshest realization? Humans can control a lot of things... but not all".
- AR
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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Whoaaa, a shout-out? I feel honored! A mid-day pick-me-up, that's for sure!
I'm at the exact same stage of life. It's like you used to be inside a snow globe, swimming in water, feeling weightless with little white snowflakes falling all around. Now suddenly we're holding the globe in our hands and we can look around and see -- wow, there was so much more than than pretty little snowy scene all along. And then you put down the globe and keep on walking along. It's a good place. A really good place. You're about to grow more than you've ever had! Keep on keeping on.
*you've ever have. Oooops.
Nope. Wait. You ever have? Cool, so I can't speak English any more. Nooo worries.
Hey Tyler,
Thanks for the invite, my friend. I enjoy your writings so much. :)
I really liked part one. You have this way with words; you bring the story alive. It was like watching the movie version playing in my mind as I was reading it.
The only piece that held it back a bit was when you mentioned trying to 'place' her twice within only a few sentences. I would edit one of those to something else so as not to seem redundant. Unless it was intentional, of course.
You know, that isn't something I used to think about. However, there are so many styles of writing today and it's basically anything goes because an artist (a writer IS an artist!) should be free to express in any form or fashion and make his/her mark. Redundancy might be a signature for someone. :) Even irksome is memorable.
Part II held so much truth. Deja vu, indeed. You are very adept at expressing the bare essence of feelings and situations. Kudos to you. You have a very wise, observant, talented head on young shoulders.
Never stop writing, my friend. You are very talented. I fully expect you to be published with a major work one day. :)
Kitty
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