It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
David LevithanTags: truth simplicity
The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.
David LevithanPeople take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.
David LevithanIt's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.
David LevithanI am starting to get tired of relying on words.
David LevithanShe stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
David LevithanThere are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.
David LevithanTags: friends
Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over.
I know how wrong this is.
When I was a child, I didn't understand. I would wake up in a new body and wouldn't comprehend why things felt muted, dimmer. Or the opposite--I'd be supercharged, unfocused, like a radio at top volume flipping quickly from station to station. Since I didn't have access to the body's emotions, I assumed the ones I was feeling were my own. Eventually, though, I realized these inclinations, these compulsions, were as much a part of the body as its eye color or its voice. Yes, the feelings themselves were intangible, amorphous, but the cause of the feelings was a matter of chemistry, biology.
It is a hard cycle to conquer. The body is working against you. And because of this, you feel even more despair. Which only amplifies the imbalance. It takes uncommon strength to live with these things. But I have seen that strength over and over again.
Tags: depression mental-illness
Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.
David LevithanEvery single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.
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