off into the unknown

“A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
- Katharine Butler Hathaway

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I can’t wait to dip my little toes in the Mediterranean.

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50:54 of Young The Giant goodness

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It was October and we were together again.

The further he drove us up the mountain, the colder and more enchanted the air became.  I don’t remember why, but we pulled off the windy parkway at an abandoned alcove. The sun had fallen out of sight and the stars had taken their positions.

I twirled in the open air, staring at the blanket of lights above me. I felt his gaze and met it with happy eyes. The next thing I remember, we were dancing, twirling, kissing, hugging, laughing, shivering, dancing.

A pleasant swirl of memories.

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“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.” 
― Franz Kafka

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I love my friends.

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Let people be who they are. When you start picking away at someone, most of the time you’re projecting your own self-hatred onto them. You want to change them because you want to change yourself. Start by forgiving them and see if you can forgive yourself, too.

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