Is Anyone Really Ready To Let Go Of Their Masks

Is anyone really ready to let go of their masks

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”

— Robin Williams (b. 21 July 1951)

Team “I can hear the near silent hum of electrical appliances and the bubbles fizzing in the can of soda on the coffee table, but can’t watch tv without subtitles and processes conversation at ¼ speed”

We’re not “just friends,” we’re friends. 

Stop defining friendship as less than romance. Stop defining romance as better than friendship. 

Friendship is enough, friendship is beautiful and fulfilling and good. Friendship isn’t less than. No type of relationship is better than another. 

they go off together, and you are left. you wait for the call, the glance over the shoulder, the gesture to follow.

you wait. and you wait. and you wait.

laughter tickles the back of your neck; a joke you didn't hear.

are they glad that you're stuck waiting? have they even noticed you're not there?