MissDerpDark

Home is the person who can look at you smiling and know you are completely bullshitting the world and they ask what is wrong. Home is the person who can see the pain in your eyes when you've fooled everyone around you. Home is the person who stands by you in moments of confusion, they aren't there to answer question or solve anything, they are simply there and don't leave. Home is in that connection you don't understand but it's evident something is there between you. Home is letting someone into your world, even when you're afraid. You realize as different as you feel from everyone else around you, you're found someone who is the same. Someone who gets it. You trust them. You'd trust them with your life if you had to because, somewhere along the way, they've kind of saved you. You talk about dreams that might never happen but they look at you and believe in you and have confidence in you, enough that, you start believing in yourse...

Current obsession: Poetry.

Before you fall in love with a girl who has been broken before, remember: It isn't just about loving her simply, it's about teaching her that she didn't deserve what happened to her in the past. Respect her brokenness. She never wanted to meet someone who could put her back together. She learned to love herself the way she wished other people had. She learned to own the parts of herself she used to reject. She learned to have confidence in what is broken, not letting what could be missing in her life, define her. You don't have to save her. Instead, run your fingers along her sharp edges and show her it doesn't have to hurt. Show her someone who will stay, even when things are hard. Show her it doesn't matter what happened or with who, what maters is the two of you there right now. Teach her that she can trust someone other than herself. Because up until now she's been the number one person she can rely on. Teach her that not everyone will...