Wednesday, June 20, 2012

words

It's okay if you've got to travel alone sometimes, you are brave enough.

people have scars in all sorts of places. Like secret road maps of their personal histories. Diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our wounds heal, leaving behind nothing but a scar. But some of them don't. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere and though the cut is long gone, the pain still lingers.

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. 

We could only wonder how she would be able to dust herself off and start over again. And yet we knew we couldn't bear for her not to, and felt ever more optimistic that after all her struggles, she would someday meet her man, her equal man, with the same charisma, love of life, and humanity she possessed. In the meantime, she'd have her friends. And the knowledge that she deserved the world. 
-S & C