You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.

You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.

I don't think unfriending your old crush on Facebook will do much other than remove him from your Facebook feed. Don't beat yourself up over what you dream about; there are a lot worse things that could slip across the transom of your unconscious mind than an old high school crush who was always nice to you.

Don't let a friend make you feel publicly uncomfortable indefinitely just because they're probably a lesbian.