“The most troublesome situations often lead to the most astounding growth of your character. Don’t give up now; you can and you will get through this.”
when you find the right person they won’t take all your problems away. they won’t make your rent any cheaper or your parents any nicer or your workload any lighter. but oh, your life will feel easier. when you find the right person you’ll smile brighter without even trying. food will taste better, and you won’t even need alcohol. when you find the right person you’ll get dizzy and drunk off their laugh, or the way they tuck your hair behind your ear when it falls in your face. when you find the right person they definitely won’t take all your problems away, but they’ll make your problems feel a whole lot more bearable. when you find the right person you’ll know. you’ll know that they are it for you, forever. and you’ll do anything you can not to lose them. when you find the right person, god, you’ll never want to let them go. sometimes you’ll lie awake at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering how the hell you got so lucky, and how the hell you’ll ever be able to live without them when they’re gone. ‘don’t worry,” they’ll say “i’m not going anywhere.” and then they’ll hold you until the sun rises. that might just be the moment when you realize that there is nobody else you’d rather see the sun rise with. when you find the right person you’ll fight. there will be 2:00am screaming matches and slamming bedroom doors and hot, salty tears running down both your face and theirs. but when you find the right person it won’t even matter, because no fight is too big that it can’t be fixed with flowers and an i love you. actually, the flowers won’t be necessary. all you’ll need is an i love you. when you find the right person all you’ll ever need is an i love you.
you will know love and loss and lonely nights. you will know what it’s like to laugh until your sides hurt and you will know what it’s like to cry until you’re left gasping for air. but when you find the right person—and you will find them, i promise—it won’t matter that life is hard and unfair and unpredictable. because when you find the right person, you will know that you won’t ever have to go through it all alone.
Curl up with a book that makes you drown in it and tugs you up from the dark waters all the same, such as Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur.
Create a playlist—not an awful collection of mainstream pop but something you can put on repeat and never get tired of. If it’s what you struggle with, anything from The 1975 and The Neighbourhood works perfectly fine.
Make yourself a mug of hot water that won’t burn your tongue, because believe it or not, you’re better off with it. (Optional: a tablespoon of honey and some essence of lemon)
Bring blankets, even if it’s still summer. You can turn on the air conditioner.
Now lock the door, because everyone deserves some alone time while listening to the sound of raindrops colliding onto the windows and hatching a personal pipe dream.
