"It's looking like a limb torn off, Or altogether just taken apart. We're reeling through an endless fall. We are the ever-living ghost of what once was..."

"There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment you must choose your direction. Will you fight to stay on the path while others tell you who you are? Or will you label yourself? Will you be honored by your choice? Or will you embrace your new path? Each morning you choose to move forward or to simply give up."

"Sometimes it's easy to feel like you're the only one in the world 

who's struggling, 

who's frustrated, 

or unsatisfied at barely getting by. 

But, 

that feeling is a lie

and 

if you just hold on; 

just find the courage to face it all for another day, 

someone or something 

will find the way and make it all okay.

 Because we all need a little help sometimes, someone to help us hear the music in the world. To remind us that it won’t always be this way. That someone is out there, and that someone will find you."

"its called the funeral. every occasion. of im ready for the funeral. and every occasion. of one billion day funeral. im coming up only. to show you down fled. im coming up only. to show you wrong"

Band. of. Horses.

“I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetative. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. 
But there are much worse games to play.”  

Woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head 
I lay motionless in bed
I thought of you and where you'd gone
and let the world spin madly on

Everything that I said I'd do 
Like make the world brand new
And take the time for you
I just got lost and slept right through the dawn 
And the world spins madly on 

The Weepies

Sometimes I think about opposites,

 not literal ones, but this yin-yanglike fluidity of life.

How the more you want something, I mean really badly want something,

is mirrored by honest and raw and painful disappointment when you don't get it

Or how about when you are experiencing the highs of life,

riding the wave of being on top of the world,

just to come crashing back down,

like the waves, 

like the tide.

Nothing  is constant with me.

I love the gamble of it all,

betting big and coming out on top,

or losing everything.

It's the opposites that interest me, and they always have....

night and day,

sunrise and sunset,

love and loneliness,

hope and despair.

It's intriguing to me how two extremes can co-exist,

rather one is nothing without the other.

You cannot have the best days without understanding what the worse days feel like.

You cannot have pure joy and happiness without feeling sincere sorrow.

The appreciation we gather for life is a collection of past experiences,

the good and the bad.

Each disappointment, each failure, each devastation,

a chance to pick ourselves up,

brush off,

and go at it again.

Full force, with everything we've got.

But it's not easy,

I'm not going to pretend it is, or that it comes naturally.

It seems like with each fall it gets harder and harder to get back up,

especially as you get older.

But perspective is extremely relevant here.

Remember perspective and remember the things you learned.

Use patience, remain optimistic,

but most importantly keep your spirit in tact and remain passionate.

Every opportunity, good or bad, creates this chance to become more the person you want to be.

Take it.

Do something about it.

Remember it all matters.

And there are going to be varied out comes, 

some good, some bad, some out of our control completely.

That's okay.

And even when it seems hopeless, and you're out of ideas, and you're tired, and lost,

I mean really really lost...

and you feel discouraged and defeated....

and you're wandering  around dodging the blows that life is throwing,

remember the way you felt.

remember the way you fought.

remember it all.

And that way, 

when the opposite happens,

and you're patient, and you put things into perspective, 

and that moment rolls around where you feel invincible again,

you can truly appreciate it.

and know it's not always this way,

and it won't remain,

but really take it all in.

And know you only understand because you've been on the other side,

the opposite of whatever it is,

and keep trying to be a better person.

because it all matters.

at least I think it does.