Relentlessly self-aware.
One of my oldest friends is getting married –
Which is crazy because I still remember the days we spent walking around the mall, counting on our fingertips how many ‘hot’ boys we saw that day.
Some days were better than others.
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The thing about being single is, you should cherish it. Because, in a week, or a lifetime, of being alone, you may only get one moment. One moment, when you’re not tied up in a relationship with anyone. A parent, a pet, a sibling, a friend. One moment, when you stand on your own. Really, […]
Read MorePeople ask us all the time, what do you want to be? And they wait for answers as if it is a point on a map and all you have to do is draw a line between where you are now and where you want to be. What if you don’t really know where you want to be?
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Because sometimes, we look at people, and we see things that they cannot see.
Read MoreTwo week’s tomorrow, my friend is getting married. So less than two week’s tomorrow, I’m going home. And I am craving the moment, I step off the airplane, and into my mother’s arms – my father’s arms – my cousin’s arms – because I know they will be there waiting for me. And I am […]
Read MoreBut I’ve heard so much about small talk,
And I’ve never been good at casual pillow talk
Because I think people are made up of things
That don’t include what they ate for breakfast that day.
… So I’ve said I’m sorry I’m not sorry, Countless times. Because I’m sorry I’m not sorry you’re not always on my mind.
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…And this morning I woke up to the sound of memories being passed back and forth in the room next door, and I think that means I woke up laughing – which is a good way to wake up.
Read MoreI think we like to have something to blame. I mean, other than ourselves. So we choose things like timing to romanticize the reasons why thing didn’t quite work out. Maybe sometimes we really don’t know what to blame, because we don’t even quite know what it is about ourselves that led us to make the decisions […]
Read MoreTornado’s and heartbreak and people that are made up of more than they have accounted for.
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Love, Ashley. 