I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.

Your heart can break at any age.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane