“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” - Orson Welles

born with a broken heart

how can you die with a broken heart, if you were born with one? your body has premeditated the world it is about to enter; subconsciously planned your every move. you will cry, get drunk, do drugs, have sex, love someone, hate someone, laugh, become greedy, eat humble pie, run away from your problems, get stuck in someone else's problems, be a burden, have many burdens: survive. you have no expectations of life because really you don't want to be disappointed. you never want to have to experience a pain so profound, the wings of your journey will escape leaving you stranded on your limbs. you don't want to be a living example of everything expectations can cause you to become, cause you to fail, cause you to loose. why live happy when you're just going to die anyway? why not be born with a broken heart then? no need to fix something if it's just going to eventually going to die and rot in the ground. you are nothing but a living corpse waiting to be consumed by the beds of eternal rest. will you accept everything i have just said? or prove me wrong? the choice is yours. live and be free, for no one is born with a broken heart and no one will ever really die.

Maya Angelou

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”