“I just, you know, I feel like we have a screwed up relationship. But we stick it out anyway. We accept that we fight a lot. We hardly have sex anymore. But we don’t wanna live without each other.
And that way, we can spend our lives together--miserable--but happy not to be apart.”
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“A friend took me to the most AMAZING place the other day. It’s called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came, they trashed it a long with everything else. The great Augustus, Rome’s first true great emperor, how could he have imagined that Rome--the whole world as far as he was concerned--would be in ruins.
It’s one of the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up around it over centuries. It feels like a precious wound; like a heartbreak you won’t let go of because it hurts too good.
We all want things to stay the same—settle for living in misery because we’re afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked around in this place, at the chaos it has endured – the way it has been adapted, burned, pillaged, then found a way to build itself back up again. And I was reassured, maybe my life hasn’t been so chaotic; it’s just the world that is, and the real trap is getting attached to any of it.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Even in this eternal city, the Augusteum showed me that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation. Both of us deserve better than staying together because we’re afraid we’ll be destroyed if we don’t.”
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"I'm tired of everyone telling me I need a man."
"You don't need a man; you need a champion."
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i hope you all have wonderful thursday. :)
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