I think I’m learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.

I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.

I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.

Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.

I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.