1:48am Is A Badge You Can Wear

The truth is, every single one of your ex's at some point or another is the one you should've spent the rest of your life with. In fact, most strangers who make eye contact for more than a moment, those are the ones you should spend the rest of your life with. At times.

The truth is, the reason your company won't get the big international account is geography. Their head office is somewhere else and so they'll go with a company that's down the road from somewhere else.

The truth is, making lists of things is a very easy thing to do, to make things sound dramatic and an easy way out of disguising a laundry list of things that are rough drafts of things that could've made it into other places but you didn't feel like shoe-horning in the mechanics of what those things demand.

And we all break sometimes. Like so much china on the floor but like magnets we find ourselves pulled back together. Sometimes with the pieces in the wrong places but I'm ok with that.

Short, concise paragraphs that are easy to read and easy to digest.

We joke about the serious things like traffic cops at a gruesome accident, not out of callousness but to cope with the mess in front of us.

I'll read this in about two months time because I'll notice a comment on it and dismiss this part of me as silly and emotionally and I'll be right then but, I'm also right now.