This funny thing happens when you graduate college. You hear so much about being an adult that you start to feel like you have to become a different person overnight, that growing up means being not you. And you concentrate so hard on living up to the term "adult" that you forget growing up happens by living, not by sheer force of will.
Cora CarmackTags: growing-up
There was no room for unhappiness when squeezed between two sets of washboard abs.
New life motto, right there.
Adventures don't happen when you're worried about the future or tied down by the past. They only exist in the now. And they always,always come at the most unexpected time,in the least likely of packages. An adventure is an open window; and an adventurer is the person willing to crawl out on the ledge and leap.
Cora CarmackIf I believed the stories I learned growing up, God made the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. I wonder if, like me, the eighth day was when he watched it all begin to unravel.
Cora CarmackTags: finding-it
New Life Realization #1:
Being an adult is hard work. I know people tell you this growing up, but it doesn’t really sink in until you’re living it, waist deep in the swamps of no-free-time and not-enough-money.
New Life Realization #2:
It’s worth it.
Tags: kelsey
and that feeling, that attachment I'd felt to him was no longer a hook, but an anchor buried deep in my rib cage.
Cora CarmackThe past is frozen. Written in stone. But the future isn't.
Cora CarmackYou told me once that history matters, but it's frozen, set in stone. This is part of our history. I can't change it or undo it. But it doesn't have to dictate our future.
Cora CarmackI wanted a way back to swings and slides and simplicity. A way back to when a butterfly could cheer me up, and a series of puddles could make my day. A way back to a time when happiness wasn't something I had to search for... it just was
Cora CarmackMaybe they didn't choose locks because love is permanent. Maybe they chose locks because emotions bind us into place. They weigh us down.
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