Maybe it's just hart to see what's right in front of you while you're frantically searching for it.

Tell me about it. It’s so hard to deal with a single parent. They take out all their anxiety on you. It’s like, she’s so angry all the time. And I didn’t even do anything!” “That’s so wrong.” “Yeah.” “Where’s your dad?” “I don’t know. My mom had me when she was still in high school, so . . .” “You don’t see him at all?” “No, and I don’t want to. I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn’t love me enough to stick around.

There are some things I can't control, & that's just the way it is.

When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.

But life’s never easy when you need it to be.

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.

It’s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.