To Be...
To Be...
To be cared for is to be loved.
To be loved is to be thought of.
To be thought of is to be yearned over.
To be yearned over is to be chosen.
To be chosen is to be prioritized.
To be prioritized is to be important.
No Phones At The Dinner Table
i think i've spent a lot of my life trying to find the right words for things i was never taught how to say. so i write them down. the things that keep me up at night, the conversations i replay on the way home, the people i miss while they're still here, the versions of myself i haven't quite learned how to love yet. i write about growing up, about growing apart, about wanting to be known without having to explain every little thing that made me who i am. i write about the strange loneliness of having so much love to give and never knowing where to put it. somewhere along the way, we learned to look down when we didn't know what to say. we filled the silence with screens, the empty spaces with noise, and the pauses between us with anything that wasn't the truth. but i still think there's something beautiful about a table full of people who put everything down long enough to listen. maybe that's what i'm trying to do here. set the phone aside. pull up a ...
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