Taking Chances

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about taking chances,
and how it’s really just about overcoming your fears.
Because the truth is, every time you take a big risk in your life,
no matter how it ends up, you’re always glad you took it.

This heart didn't come with instructions

Adapt or die. As many times as we've heard it, the lesson doesn't get easier. The problem is we're human. We want more than just to survive. We want love. We want success. We want to be the best that we can be. So, we fight like hell to get those things. Anything else feels like death

There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone, because what if you learn that you need love and you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This? It could go on forever
.

"Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day,

into more pieces than my heart was made of, 

I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, 

I never thought about things at all, everything changed, 

the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world,

it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, 

it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, 

I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, 

what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me?

I think and think and think, 

I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

^Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran^