Becca Martin

I didn’t feel the connection I read about having. I didn’t feel sparks fly, even though I felt nerves when I saw you or turned down the dirt road leading to your driveway.

Give up alcohol and try drinking more water. You probably need to anyway.

You start to think about what’s next. You start to picture yourself in different places. You mindlessly start scrolling through job searches in random towns just to see what you can find.

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is not giving up. If you fail, try again. Ask for help and get feedback from whoever is willing to give it to you.

Your trust is gone. It felt like it was just ripped away from you without warning, almost like the sharp pain of a paper cut slicing open your finger, but a million times worse. It’s just gone.

You can say you’re sorry until you’re blue in the face, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you mean it. Until you no longer repeat those actions you apologized for that will be when you are truly sorry.

When we have a conversation we want to get to know you, the real you. We want to have something engaging and meaningful to talk about. Deep conversation is what it’s all about.

The small town shaped me to the person I am today. It’s giving me the opportunities to travel, it’s given me the desires I feel inside me and it’s given me the heart that always throbs for more.

It took me a little while longer to realize this, but it’s almost naïve to think people really care about what you’re doing. Unless you’re a celebrity people aren’t generally keeping tabs on you and constantly talking about you. If you have a successful moment they might congratulate you, but people are trying to figure their owns lives out at the same time.

I’m starting to think it is a good thing because if it doesn’t challenge you it won’t change you.

ll you have in life is your name, which is your word and your integrity. How you live, not what you say, is who you really are. Live and enjoy every minute because life goes by so fast.

You can throw yourself a pity party, but don’t expect others to join in. Everyone might tell you what you’re going through sucks, but no one else is experiencing it first hand besides you.

Now time has passed. My wounds aren’t as deep; they’ve merely healed themselves completely over time. I don’t hate you anymore, I don’t think you’re ugly and I don’t think I’m better for him than you.

Through every sunrise
And every sunset,
Her eyes have stories to tell.

Trust is what makes a relationship successful. If you don’t trust someone without proof by creeping then the relationship isn’t working.

“I needed to hear your voice.”

“We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

Progress is not possible without change and change is inexorable. You can’t stay in college forever. You can’t expect your friends not to leave. You have to accept their decisions and support them.