The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.