Jesse Barrett

Storyteller, dreamer, doer. California transplant to NYC.

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Jesse Barrett

A Story About Your Ex Becoming Your Neighbor In Brooklyn

You begin sobbing on the subway. People are staring and you try holding it in but you can’t. The L train stops at Bedford Avenue and you hope he’ll board the train and see you. Maybe everything would go back to how it was when you two were happy — but he doesn’t.

Read This If The Weight Of The World Is Drowning You

While I can’t guess what might be drowning you today, I reach out my hand to you and say, I’m with you and I feel you and I hear you. We all become what we promise ourselves we won’t: selfish, arrogant, inconsiderate, unkind, intolerant.