Ryna Rock

“I am just a guy, doing my best to be the best person I can be.

And, every once in a while, I fuck up the moment I’m in.

Please. Get over it. Get over yourselves. Get over this weird need to be morally superior to me and to the other people in this world.

And let me be imperfect. I assure you, my imperfections drive me to improve.

Let me love myself. I assure you, loving myself despite my faults will only make me a better person.

Let me be my own judge. I assure you, I’ll be more fair and just than you ever will.

Let me be the owner of my own intentions. I assure you, there isn’t another soul on earth who knows what my real intentions are but me.

Love and acceptance despite ongoing and glaring imperfection is all I’ve ever tried to attain with this blog. For me. For you. For everyone. And I’ll never stop.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“How would it feel to live a full life and have no one remember it, to have no one remember the extraordinary things you accomplished, even if it was just waking up every day and finding the courage to get out of bed?”
― T.J. Klune, Into This River I Drown

“My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, that’s different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions have made you uncomfortable. Somebody who practices a different religion than you do. Somebody who has been lost to addiction. Somebody with a criminal past. Somebody who dresses “below” you. Somebody with disabilities. Somebody who lives an alternative lifestyle. Somebody without a home.

Somebody that you, until now, would always avoid, always look down on, and always be disgusted by.

Reach your arm out and put it around them.

And then, tell them they’re all right. Tell them they have a friend. Tell them you love them.

If you or I wanna make a change in this world, that’s where we’re gonna be able to do it. That’s where we’ll start.

Every. Single. Time.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One