they can't just take you away.

"See that right there, your total ignorance to how completely awesome you are is one of the 5,000 things I love about you."

It was one of those uncommon moments. Those times when you don't wish for something else. For even one thing to be different. When you have no other needs and no worriers. Where your insides are calm. And everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst is quieted to stillness.

Sometimes I think that we waste our words,
we waste our moments and we don't take the time
to say the things that are in our hearts
when we have the chance.

I screamed every hurtful word that I could think of. And what killed me is that they didn't hurt you at all. You didn't care what I said, you never have

Every so often I can hardly remember the sound of your voice or the awkward rhythm in your walk, I'm losing you all over again

Too often we don't realize what we have, until it’s gone. Too often we're too stubborn to say, "I'm sorry I was wrong." Sometimes it seems we hurt the ones we hold dearest to our hearts, and we let the foolish things tear us apart. I'm pushing you away each time I pull up that bar stool, drowning you in every drop I drink, I'm telling you to go to hell but I'm talking to myself because you're not around to hear what I think.

"I'm thankful for my years spent with this family; for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them and lead by their example; where ever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes. This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson, or I don't want to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept; things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go."

Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.

"hyp·o·crite/ˈhipəˌkrit/ - (noun) A person who professes certain ideals, but fails to live up to them."

"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

"People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."