You can’t cling to the past because no matter how hard you try, it’s already gone
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| — | Ted Mosby |
Dreams
What cruel things are dreams, showing us all we ever wanted only to be taken away all too soon. Laying in bed, suddenly empty, falling asleep again just to escape back into that perfect world. In the end, all good things will disappear.
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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We stumble and fall, then we get back up. It’s how we learn, to avoid the pain, the mistakes of our past. Then there are times where you repeat it, and you fear that you can’t control yourself…constantly tumbling down, over the same mistake, the same person. Then you just find yourself, broken and on the floor, not knowing if you can get yourself back up again.
Hope…
Hope is such a powerful and dangerous thing. Sometimes I wonder why I go on ahead, taking the uneasy bridge, unsure of whether I’ll be safe or condemned to destruction. Then I am reminded of what lies on the other side, and I risk my sanity for the wondrous possibility. I won’t allow fear to rob me of that possibility, to lose hope. I’ll keep on traveling the dangerous path.
If we stop looking to the present and the past, and instead we look to the future…if we ask ourselves what can be—what it will be tomorrow… then we’re asking the right question. Because to hope, to dream, to predict is to shape life yourself, rather than to be shaped by it.
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| — | Bruce Wayne/Batman |
…it’s not something that develops over time, it’s something that happens insantatiously. it courses through you, like the water of a river after a storm, filling you and emptying you all at once. you feel it throughout your body; in your hands, in your heart, in your stomach, in your skin…if you have to think about it, you have not felt it….everyone (finds it) eventually. you just never know when. or where.
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| — | HIMYM |
