âI know itâs unfashionable, but I think thereâs something worthwhile in asking someone to stay. In laying down your pride and saying, âyou know what? my ego doesnât matter anymore, because Iâd rather lose an argument than lose you.â There is something in saying âIâll do whatever it takes to keep you close and I wonât let go.â If you love somebody so much that youâre willing to devote hours of your life every day to talk to them, to thinking about the things that they said, buying cute presents or making them food, or listening to entire albums that you know they love, is it really so difficult to swallow your pride and say âno, I canât watch you leave. Stay. I want you to stay.â Is it really so impossible to cast aside your stubbornness; your, âleave if you want to, I wonât stand in your wayâ and replace it with honesty? Because if the truth is you want to beg, you want to cry, you want to say âgoddamnit I have never ever felt this way about another person and I know if you leave youâll leave behind an empty mess,â then thatâs love, right? Some people are meant to go. It doesnât matter what you say, theyâll be on the next train out of town. But some people are waiting for you to say you care too much to let them leave in silence. And if you let them go make sure you do it consciously. Pride means nothing in the long run.â
â S.Z. // Excerpt from a book Iâll never write #205 // Iâd ask you to stay











