Emmy & Oliver

But knowing something and feeling something are two totally different things.

when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people’s lives.

“Wanting someone isn’t the same as loving them, though,” he said. “You know? It doesn’t mean the same thing.”

I know that. But knowing something and feeling something are two totally different things.

“Well, that’s growing up, isn’t it?” my dad said. “You don’t always have to know. And things aren’t always fair. You just have to keep moving forward. A step in one direction.”

The world continues to spin even when we want it to stop

That’s when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people’s lives.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)

it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

—E. E. Cummings

maybe it’s that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you’re near enough. So close and yet so far.