go obama

Do you ever feel that people are saying something so, so important to them,

and they are so, so important to you, and you just want to get it. You just want to be there and cry with them and laugh with them and say the right thing and get the right response. I used to be silent. Just sit and listen. Which worked. But I don't know. If something was sad, i wanted it happy. If something was happy, i wanted it happier. And you can't do that by listening. You can accept things by listening, but i'm not sure if you can suppy much more comfort than that, in silence. Of course, acceptance is all i ever crave, so that silence just might be enough. But I care too much, so more often than not, recently, i've been throwing myself over this gaping hole of doubt and nervousness and just saying what i think might be the right thing, and sometimes it is. and those times are the single most rewarding, happiest, most purely brilliant times. But sometimes, i say the completely wrong thing. the thing that nobody wants to hear, that makes all their fears and negativities validated, that makes their lives lose just a little more meaning.

maybe i'm being too self-centered. maybe nothing i say to anyone can have that kind of profound impact. maybe i should just stick with silence and shoulder pats and desperate, strangled sounding murmurs of "understanding", when i don't really understand.

maybe i'm just want this so bad, this being there for whoever, understanding and encouraging whoever, maybe i just want it so bad so when i'm the 'whoever', someone says the right thing to me. maybe that's too much to hope for?

"i love you"

is SUCH a pretty phrase

you can NEVER say it enough, guys :)

compliment someone tomorrow, okay?
do it.
for me?