Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity...
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. - Isabel Colegate
It's not childish to hold on to hope. It's actually hard, very, very, hard.
I'm all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke.
So, chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don’t lick your wounds, celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You were in a lion fight, ...just because you didn’t win, doesn’t mean you don’t know how to roar.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.