Gina Clingan

Over time, you might find yourself growing apart from them and preferring the company of the people around them. That’s usually a sign that the connection that once brought you two together is no longer there.

You will lose the people who don’t benefit from you investing energy into your own well-being, instead of them, for a change.

I would say that I wish you well, but that wouldn’t exactly be fair, nor would it be the truth. Instead, I wish you exactly what you deserve in this life.

When it comes to friendships and relationships, your love and appreciation can often grow beyond the person you initially bonded with.

You may be out of sight, but you have never left my mind.

So, tell me.
Do you believe in God?
Do you think God still believes
in you?

Denial sits in the chair in the corner and stares at her phone, waiting for his name to pop up on the screen. Waiting for a text message or a call, anything at all to validate his continued existence.

None of the people around them seem to like them.

The damage
is starting
to feel like home.

Sometimes kindness only feeds delusion.

You are forgiven for everything you have ever done or couldn’t do.

At 24, I started a job as a cashier at a new store. On my very first day of working with one of my older male managers, he smiled at me and said, “I bet old men hit on you all the time.”

I’m sorry that you threw away our friendship
to chase a guy
who left
and broke your heart
in the same way that he broke mine.

They can tell when something’s going on with you without you even having to say anything about it.

I can only imagine what kind of man you would have grown to be or what a different world we would be living in right now if it was still graced by your presence.

Heal loudly, so others don’t drown in their own silence.

Nothing will ever compare to the experience of the original drive-in movie theater.

When I say I have trust issues, it isn’t a ploy for sympathy. I don’t expect you to swoop in and save me from my own trauma.