Pillow Thoughts II by Courtney Peppernell

Author:Courtney Peppernell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2018-06-29T21:09:52+00:00

If your heart is happy

Appreciate happiness, as it doesn’t often stay. But it lives through your smile, your laugh, your deep breaths of relief.

Our first real conversation was on a Ferris wheel. I remember because you were afraid of heights but still came on with me anyway. I could tell you were nervous even as the carnival lights were dancing around us. I told you we would only go around a couple of times, but you said it was okay and that you wanted to stay. I remember asking what you wanted in life and it wasn’t weird to be asking you that. I remember you listed all the things I wanted too, with the last being happiness. And I felt the night air as it rushed down my back, wondering how I could possibly ask you to stay when we were only new. But you just looked at me and said, “I know I can be happy with you.”

As it rained outside, I listened to the patter on the windowpane and I watched as two raindrops chased each other across the glass. And it reminded me of you, how I would follow you through every season. How we are still us, even if the days don’t always stay the same. How I am happy with you, even in the rain.

Don’t waste your time with people who bring you down. Bitterness is a disease that gets the better of most people, but that doesn’t mean you need to tolerate it.

You have flaws just like anybody else. Embrace them, live for them. There is only one you. Forgiveness is happiness. They walk hand in hand. You don’t have to forgive everyone in your life. But you do have to forgive yourself.

Every time.

My happiest memories are all of you If you leave

What am I supposed to do?

Tell me, I want to know

Tell me about the moments that made your hands shake, tell me about your first kiss and the person who made your heart break. Tell me what you love to do in your spare time, tell me about all the places you want to see, about your favorite books, songs, and flavors of tea. Tell me the thing that scares you most, tell me the moment you decided who you are. Tell me the colors that make you dizzy, tell me all the constellations you know. Tell me the things you hope for, the wishes you place on stars, tell me the candy that you like, the flowers that make you sigh. Tell me what makes you breathe, tell me and I’ll never say goodbye.

Darling, I am sorry

I can’t act like I don’t care

because I do

And your smile

is what I think about

every time

I close my eyes

I could spend hours talking to you and it only feels like a handful of moments.

And I know that life can be difficult and challenges get in the way, but with you, life feels effortless. It feels like the struggle is worth it. Just to see you at the end of the day.

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