Brianne McDonald

3. You’re a mess. There is a venerable mountain of clothes on your side of the bed.

1. You’re not just the ‘way you are.’ If you don’t like something about yourself, you can change it.

“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”

1. People who are unable to control their emotions

I was high off of my story. It was all I thought about. I dreamed, breathed and ate that story for months and months.

We had whiskey kisses and broken dreams, long nights and hurried hands.

6. Leave them hanging for a high-five.

Here is what I have deduced from the vastness of the internet and zero actual research.

I don’t want forever. It isn’t real, it isn’t tangible and it isn’t certain.

Maybe you hate your job, or your coworkers, or classes have just been really rough. Maybe you just feel a little ‘off’ today and you can’t really explain why. I offer you this playlist in hopes of easing (or heightening) your pain.

4. Your nail polish, if you’re even wearing any, is usually chipping or in varying degrees of chipped.

But would you have wanted the presence of someone who pretty obviously didn’t love you, anyway? Probably not, not after everything you’ve been through. Not after seeing the emotional toll it took on those people who did stick it out.

The issue of illegal immigration is a sensitive, complicated issue, but I think our country often loses sight of the people who are truly affected by it.

We’re raised to believe that if we love hard enough, strong enough, and long enough, everything falls into place.

3. We can go see the same kid’s movie at the theater half a dozen times and you love it as much as I do. Or at least fake it really well.

Hint: Acing a math test isn’t one of them.

The idea of following our hearts is a sweet and heart-warming concept in an ideal world, but what about when you apply it outside of a Disney movie or chick flick?

I’ve never felt infinite.