My father's funeral was a difficult day, as expected, but I had support from my 5 best friends as we said goodbye

Look for the woman who has the courage to be "wrong" on her own terms rather than "right" by the standards of a group. You deserve a partner who is the captain of her own ship, not a passenger in someone else’s fleet.

"When time has come and I've passed away Please carry me home to Belmorhea" Not one arrangement shall be made JUST a simple cremation, I don't need the pricey parade

Weekly trips to a small tea and coffee shop together when I was a toddler. The story makes me reflect on the quiet sacrifices and small traditions my mother created out of love, and it inspires me as I begin building similar everyday memories with my own child.

*Quelque Chose De Parfait* French Love Poem My first poem I wrote in French. I took 4 years of French and I still can't understand when it's spoken to me. But I put my heart and soul into this so that the person I love could hear it and not understand until I wanted them to.

*How do you live?* Have you ever thought of what putting yourself first means for others? What things that are best for you are doing to the minds of the people around you? If the things you say to make you feel better are someone else's last straw? Thoughts/Poem

*Someone's Sacrifice* What is life if you are constantly sacrificing for someone else's happiness? A story/poem

The writing of hollow hands explains brief emotions many have felt and can relate to. I express feeling through writing that most can feel when reading.

Here's the last part to my mini series about what I've been doing and possibly expecting when it comes to my friends who are there and who aren't.

Friendship is very important because there should be more important ways to show loyalty than one path. Leadership, loyalty, honesty and trust in relationships is essential to a stable friendship.

Life with a man who will make you feel loved 1 day and question your worth the next. And, the tears in between.

Here's a 3rd part to my mini series about why my old childhood friends stopped being those friends I came to know and love, specifically those that STOPPED reaching out to me and checking on my well-being/life.

I can't yet come to a conclusion on whether or not it's ethical to lie about my childhood to the people who expect trust from me. I want to seem normal to folks that don't yet know me. I just don't know the right way to keep a person in my life by being honest and trying not to scare them away at the same time.

Here's Part 2 of my 'When Friends Stop Being Friends' which will address some more difficult challenges that I've faced when it comes to friendships and how it's shaped me as a person.

Writing about how my life hasn't been easy but I'm becoming the person I always needed to have in life my hopes to inspire many to help to show you never give up on something you want in life

What happens when friends you've known for years STOP being friends? I've been dealing with that lately, mainly due to life, but it still sucks and hurts nonetheless because they could at least keep me informed on their day-to-day like I would with them.

She made herself bend and fold into positions that made it hard for her to breathe. She slowly buried herself in you until she no longer recognized herself.

Keeping a woman in her feminine energy and forever interested in you requires a deep understanding of her needs, desires, and nature.

Make sure to check on loved ones. you never know who’s struggling. if you are in the US dial 411 to get some help.

My entire life I have heard that love will come when I least expect it. I can't help but think about what it might be like to be in love one day, so am I just setting myself up for failure?