The random "GOOD MORNING, HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD DAY!" text-

The women you agreed with at the bus stop -

The kids that came into your line for frozen drinks -

The baby that smiled at you from her stroller -

The little girl that laughed at your funny faces on the bus -

The 2 friends that sat near you on the train, expressing your same angst-

The friend that stopped what he was doing to 'come to your rescue' -

The friend you see every now and then, but the love is always there, the talk is great, the support is real, the laughs are priceless -

The guy that comes up to you with a compliment, asking for a small bit of your time . . . interested in you? (while you looked a hot mess)

It's the people throughout our day that somehow 'make our day' much brighter! Our day may have started on the rougher side, but ended in a SMILE.

the people we meet . . .

[You can't possibly take the world by storm, if the storm continues falling down on you, right?]


“Storms come, and are so personal, they seem to know your address and have the key to your house.”
― Reverend Jesse Jackson

“We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have a decision to make: keep trying to control a storm that is not going to go away or start learning how to live within the rain.”
― Glenn Pemberton,

---for storms, sometimes we cut out the WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and just ask WHY? & HOW?

INDIA.ARIE - SONGVERSATION.

every song. every lyric. every word = the healing process

"Women always think men CAN change but they DON'T . . . Men think that women CAN'T change but they DO."

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not who I am, but who they wish I was

Laugh like you've never been lonely/Laugh like there is hope in the story

Love like you've never been lonely/Love like he'll be there forever

What's that song?

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"The day you lose your fear you should quit."

"Love leaves a memory that no one can steal."

~scene from HAWTHORE, Jada Pinkett Smith

[There are parts we play in each others lives, whether we mean to or not . . .
When most things fail, there's only a few who make sense to you.]

~ Dionna PridGeon

What is everything for?

You try to help people and you try to love people but it all ends up becoming extremely hurtful and painful. I have these:

unbearable, debilitating, suppressive standards that no one can win in. How can you love someone with those standards?

That's not love! That control! Protecting yourself from feeling and falling, being alive!

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I thought that he had a magic key so that I would finally not fell alone. Then to come across someone who understood me, didn't make me feel alone - then it not be right! Now, I question everything, nothing makes sense.

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...unsafe feelings spend you out of control. Don't allow you to make the right decisions. Feelings amount to what??? Feel for hurt?

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The moment I allowed myself to feel something . . . My air, my oxygen, my breath, my coming to life! - destroys the people that I love.

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. . . deepest recesses of your thinking - I want to satisfy by dark pleasures - revenge!

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What is love?

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What we know about love is what we've experienced before.

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from a scene in the show HAWTHORNE
(Jada in her therapy session)

Sometimes we DO, with expectations . . . the expectations are the things that can bite us in the ass!