I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

Serrated, adj. And you said, "I'm not sure we can.

People 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.

Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.