I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.