Things I’m learning as I sit:

• In a relationship, two halves do not make a whole. Broken does not mend broken.
• I want to believe there is good in the world – sometimes I do nice things for other people just to prove it to myself.
• You absolutely cannot give what you do not have. It will deplete you both if you try.
• We are all stunningly differently abled.
• “It’s going to be okay” no longer means the storm has passed. It means I have everything I need to endure it.
• You cannot fill a cup with a hole in it. I am a previously unexamined leaky cup.
• All people want to be heard, acknowledged and above all else, loved. There is never too much or enough love.
• The only way out is through. Note: Through sodding hurts.

All are advice I could have absently given any friend a week ago. Now, the familiar is unfamiliar and so deeply known all at once. How sincerely lovely.

Give ‘Em Hell