"She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: for small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

“PEOPLE THINK A SOUL MATE IS YOUR PERFECT FIT, AND THAT’S WHAT EVERYONE WANTS. BUT A TRUE SOUL MATE IS A MIRROR, THE PERSON WHO SHOWS YOU EVERYTHING THAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK, THE PERSON WHO BRINGS YOU TO YOUR OWN ATTENTION SO YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
A TRUE SOUL MATE IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON YOU’LL EVER MEET, BECAUSE THEY TEAR DOWN YOUR WALLS AND SMACK YOU AWAKE. BUT TO LIVE WITH A SOUL MATE FOREVER? NAH. TOO PAINFUL. SOUL MATES, THEY COME INTO YOUR LIFE JUST TO REVEAL ANOTHER LAYER OF YOURSELF TO YOU, AND THEN LEAVE.
A SOUL MATES PURPOSE IS TO SHAKE YOU UP, TEAR APART YOUR EGO A LITTLE BIT, SHOW YOU YOUR OBSTACLES AND ADDICTIONS, BREAK YOUR HEART OPEN SO NEW LIGHT CAN GET IN, MAKE YOU SO DESPERATE AND OUT OF CONTROL THAT YOU HAVE TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE, THEN INTRODUCE YOU TO YOUR SPIRITUAL MASTER.”

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On the last tube home i met a drunk 30 year old man who wouldn't stop talking about his life and how it's going so quickly and it's TIME he HAS to settle down and have some babies and propose to his girlfriend. Didn't sound very happy about it... And didn't seem to understand that he didn't HAVE to.

It was a weird kind of serendipity; i'd been thinking for the past week how my closest friends seem sorted, with boyfriends they are in love with and want to marry and have babies with. It had been getting me down - i think because they have a lovely stable looking future and i have no plans for my life whatsoever. Seemed like the times you hear about ('when you hit your 20's', 'so embarrassing when you can't bring a date') were starting to roll in. 

But i found myself really defending the fact that there are no rules to life, no set absolute timeline, and the things we think we want, or maybe just feel obliged to do like this poor bastard, have maybe just been drummed into us by films and media and governments wanting to keep us predictable and in neat consumer groups. And that doesn't actually sound fun. So i thought maybe i need to stop whining - whiners are wieners - and rinse this golden age of being single and having a young body that can withstand what i put it through and get back at it.

So, i got wasted in a pool all night and somehow didn't care anymore.

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