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"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not quite, the not yet, the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
Ayn Rand
I don’t really have the right words for this right now, but I’m going to try anyway. My friend (that is such a cheap word, not at all the right one-the one necessary hasn’t been spoken yet in these worlds), sent this to me in the midst of a conversation. Simple. In his words, he was simply sharing his thoughts. Nothing else needed to be said. I can’t even explain how necessary it was for me to see them, to read them, to whisper them under the cover of blankets, to taste them, to see if they were real, if they could be real. I feel like we wander aimlessly a lot, to and fro, often sad and not knowing why. Then someone drops a pin in the silence and you remember what it is to breathe.
It’s late or early and I’m tired. All I know is that I needed to drag myself out of bed and try to share. Somehow I needed these words, and somehow he got them to me. So I’ll try and say thank you.
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To those who found their way to my tumblr, hello and welcome. My name is Melissa. I'm a 22 year old college graduate working crappy jobs day and night living life and taking joy where it finds me. I'm a storyteller at my most fundamental of levels and tell them in the ways in which they should be told-sometimes in words, sometimes in drawings or painitngs, sometimes in silence. Shared here is a lot of my own personal work, along with anything that inspires the storyteller in me, things that simply take my breath away in both laughter and beauty. Enjoy the journey. Every story is heard.
