Nicole Stawiarski

I’ve gotten used to the winters here, to the rough knuckles and the wind chill.

So what if dating was just like karate?

And somewhere between now and then the world changed, and so did I.

Gemini: Gemini, you’ve been treating love like a haunted house. Sometimes closing your eyes and hiding, sometimes trying to sprint your way through to the end.

I miss them when it’s sunny too, and when the weather is just kind of blah, and I’ve learned that any time is an appropriate time to be sad.

I think we became stones in each other’s lives even though neither of us wanted it to happen.

Pisces have so much going on in that head of theirs, you’ll know they’re in love when they start to let you into all of those dreams and creative thoughts living up in there.

I. It’s my first time traveling alone, and my phone doesn’t work once I land in Montréal, which means I don’t have access to the one thing I depend on explicitly to survive in this world, Google maps.

If we never stopped to ask ourselves how we feel about our own lives, we’d just float on by, passively, down a lazy river free from any decisions.

Because even though the person is long gone, it’s hard to forget the feeling. And maybe I’m not supposed to.

I never have to lose it. That love, that structure, that support. It never really went away, it just taught me to stand on my own.

It’s having something we want to say, a point we want to make, while still appreciating all the different words that get us there exactly for everything they are and understanding what makes them unique.