Normalize not forcing connections with people.
It flows or it goes.
If someone doesn’t see the value of having you by their side, don’t try to convince them.
As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more. [Psalm 103:15-16]
Of course! the path to heaven doesn’t lie down in flat miles.
It’s in the imagination
with which you perceive
this world, and the gestures with which you honor it. [Mary Oliver]