āLove has taught me how to be alone. Because people leave. Without warning, without explanation, without any thought to what happens once theyāre gone. And they are allowed to do that - they are allowed to leave if something in them doesnāt want to stay. Sometimes, itās not the physical distance that kills you either. Itās the way their eyes stop seeing you or the realization that they never did. And the thing is, just because people leave doesnāt mean the progress you made while they were there has to. And that is what love teaches you. How to find solace in yourself even when your heart is rupturing. How to sit alone with yourself at the end of a hard day and think to yourself, āIt has been a hard day. But there is strength in this body. And there is love in the days ahead. If only I have the courage to find it.āā
ā L.A.L. || I think, itās okay to build your house with bricks from other people - friends, family, lovers, lovely strangers in subway cars. But your foundation? Your foundation has gotta be yourself. You canāt pick up and move every time someone leaves. You rebuild, you reinforce, add some more of your own bricks to balance out the ones from other people. But your bedrock, that plot of land that you staked out at birth? Thatās all you babe. And you have every right to protect it ruthlessly.Ā