Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.
Deb CalettiSometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
Deb CalettiBeaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of
deep, dreamy thoughts.
Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.
Deb CalettiStories help you understand your life,
she’d say. Stories can heal. And I think she’s right, because why do old guys back from the war tell their experiences again and again? Why did people of long ago make up elaborate tales of mythical beings? Why do people sit in a room and reveal the pieces of their life to doctors trained to listen, and why are they cured by doing that? Why
libraries? Come on, all those stories, pieces of life told again and again. We need them. Stories are a ritual that put all the crazy shit about life into a form that makes sense. We’re all like the little kids that need to be read the same story over and over again.
A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and
let go?
You were a stone wall, a fort in high,
unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re
really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
Deb CalettiShe would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
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