Beau Taplin

I will never ask you to sacrifice a thing in exchange for my heart.

You are multitudes. A muse. A masterpiece. A magic thing. The single thing in all this existence that genuinely steals my breath away.

I see now that our flaws and damages should not be ignored or desensitized but harnessed and embraced — that all of our quirks and qualities have a part to play in the greater scheme of our lives and should never be silenced or drowned out.

What I have begun to recognise in myself and others is that, more often than not, the fear of letting go isn’t really that at all, but a fear of trying again — it’s not really about the person you have left, but all of the uncertainty and possible disappointment that now lies on the road ahead of you.

Life is precious and incredibly fragile and must always be lived to the fullest.

It is no accident that a great many success stories begin with adversity. You’ll find you are capable of tremendous things when you are backed into a corner, when you are stripped of all hope and left with no other choice but to push on despite the odds stacked against you.

There has arguably never been a more remarkable and unusual time to be young, here, and alive.

Loving you has liberated me of loathing and pettiness and I find myself free, for the very first time in my life, to be completely and spectacularly present.

You captivate me with your passions and send me positively mad with want and need. You make me wild and naive and a single kiss from you is enough to send me to ecstasy.

It’s the little resolutions you make each and every day that truly count.

When we are going on nothing but a profile picture and a few lines of text, we can become smitten with our *idea* of a person, a product of our hopes and imaginations, rather than genuinely bothering to discover the truth of who they are…

You don’t want to leave any of this behind. But you must. And it’s okay to be afraid.