"the world doesn’t stop for your sadness, nor will it stop for your happiness. in your most heartbreaking moments, you will turn around to find no one beside you. and when you find reason to jump for joy, you will realise the world might be cowering in their own sorrows. so what then should our manner be towards happiness and sadness?

perhaps we would do best to not link either concept to The World. if you’re sad, so be it, and if you’re happy, it is simply so. the world cannot stop for you and you alone, because the world is made up of 6 billion “you-s”.

but if you are gracious, and humble enough, you will realise the concept of “the world” can be whittled down to as wide or as small as you wish it to be. ‘gracious enough’ to learn to give grace, allowing people out of the expectations of your present world; and ‘humble enough’, to know that your boundaries of your personal “world” isn’t THE working World.

Through it all, you might even find that perhaps, you mean the world to someone. and then, in that moment of realisation, you can be the (appropriate) world to them."

"je vais un petit ami."

"In our most trying moments, we plead earnestly for situations to give us a break. Not people because we understand they have no control and no loyalties. And sometimes not God because we have no faith He will take pity on us. I have no faith in the goodness of God. Which is so sad because He is the only One who remains in spite of all my unfaithfulness. Now God, please. Give me a break."