2013 Lesson #2,7964

Learn to keep your mouth shut.

Just because it's in your head, doesn't mean you should say it out loud. Just because you're easily restless and thus always feel the need to let out how your mood is or how you feel, doesn't mean you can't sink back to your shells and clam up. Permanently.

It's a freaking fun method, bottling up. Try it. Of course it's not your usual trait; but maybe that's always been the problem. You were right to zip your lips and hide behind the walls. 

PS: You have to be brave.

How do you fall in love?

You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. 

Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.)

And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. 

That’s it.

PS: You have to be brave.


(Jeanette Winterson in Big Questions from Little People & Simple Answers from Great Minds)

2013 Lesson: #34

Spend more time with Mom and Dad. 

And then enjoy their sincere, pleased smile when you propose it.