you know what’s wild is that all these crazy standards we hold ourselves to are things that we don’t even value in another person? like i’ve never been like “wow I love that this friend of mine is too proud to ask for help and never complains about their feelings” or “my favorite quality about this friend is that they get straight A’s and never get overwhelmed and has never told me about a problem” or “i love that this friend has never been wrong about anything or slipped up and said something embarrassing once in their life” and yet here we are, pushing ourselves past our limits for and beating ourselves up over slipups of things that our friends probably wouldn’t even rank in the top 50 reasons they like us
It’s October! You know what that means... 🎃 (via kxvo)
all my life I’ve somehow only ever seen the gifs of this. I never even knew that the pumpkin man was dancing to the Ghostbusters theme. This whole thing is so much better than I ever could have expected from the gifs omg
“You’re not my ex boyfriend. You were a passing moment, an almost.
a maybe one day we’ll be something.
But one day never came, you passed by, and ‘almost’ didn’t happen.
And yet it feels like something did
because I know your favorite songs,
what you think about late at night,
and how beautiful you thought I was.
And I know you knew even more about me.
Our story was like an acute angle,
a meeting point and then off in different directions.
So close and then farther and farther away.
We were an almost, maybe, someday.”
“We almost loved once,” she says, biting her lip at the memory. It was our eyes meeting from across a crowded room and him helping me with a tricky math problem and grinning when I got it right and feeling electrified every time our bodies brushed against each other. Almost love is the worst. It’s full of what-ifs and I-wishes. When you know it could’ve worked under different circumstances, it tears you apart. Almost love hurts. But if anyone could be my almost-lover, I’m glad it was him.”
“And as I walk away, I’ll walk with a confidence that if we are meant to be, we will be. So until then if I see you down the road, please only be there if this almost thing is something of the past. Please only stop me, if you can love me the way I deserve. I love you with all my heart. Sadly, though, loving someone with all your heart doesn’t mean the feelings will always be reciprocated. And although it wasn’t a relationship, you were almost everything I needed. Almost.”
“I hope my sleep carries me to a place so far away that the thought of your lips and how I’ll never get a taste of them again won’t burn holes through my skin.”
— - please, just hold me a bit longer, Rida Aamina
