I know what it’s like to not know whether tomorrow is worth it. To be so exhausted that you would give anything just for a chance to put the load down. I know what it’s like to end the day raw and battered. To have nothing left to give yourself but sleep. I know what it’s like to have everything go dark. To not know if you’ll ever be happy again. Or if you ever were. I know what it’s like is to scream into the clouds. To beg whatever is out there listening for just ten minutes of quiet. But there are days when the light turns on. When I am less alone and the world is less heavy on my heart. There are good moments. They exist, they are real—no matter what my mind tells me when the sun goes down.
— Sharleigh Thomson, “Future Tense” (via twloha)
There are moments and things to stay for in this life. We may have no idea what they’ll be or when they’ll happen, but they will happen. Sure, the path may be painful at times because life is inevitably hard, but it’s worth enduring to reach those moments that give us breath. The moments that give us hope for the future and the desire to live.
— Lauren Penna, “Finding Sun in the Shadows” (via twloha)