Ashley Kowalski

“Death. The only thing inevitable in life. People don’t like to talk about death because it makes them sad. They don’t want to imagine how life will go on without them, all the people they love will briefly grieve but continue to breathe. They don’t want to imagine how life will go on without them, Their children will still grow Get married Get old… They don’t want to imagine how life will continue to go on without them, Their material things will be sold Their medical files stamped “closed” Their name becoming a memory to everyone they know. They don’t want to imagine how life will go on without them, so instead of accepting it head on, they avoid the subject altogether, hoping and praying it will somehow… pass them by. Forget about them, moving on to the next one in line. No, they didn’t want to imagine how life would continue to go on… without them. But death didn’t forget. Instead they were met head-on by death, disguised as an 18-wheeler behind a cloud of fog. No. Death didn’t forget about them. If only they had been prepared, accepted the inevitable, laid out their plans, understood that it wasn’t just their lives at hand. I may have legally been considered an adult at the age of nineteen, but I still felt very much all of just nineteen. Unprepared and overwhelmed to suddenly have the entire life of a seven-year-old In my realm. Death. The only thing inevitable in life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“decided to no longer wonder what would have happened if things had worked out differently. And instead, I would focus on what was in front of me. I would focus on reality instead of asking myself questions about fictions.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“The focus should always be on becoming that type of person, not getting a particular outcome.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones