Kestrel’s Reviews > ...And a Happy New Year? > Status Update

The faces I knew so well – that would age and wrinkle, with haircuts that would come and go, and lines that would deepen. Some from laughter, some from sadness. Time would march determinedly on, and we would hold onto each other determinedly as it did so.

long live all the magic we made i had the time of my life with you

We will not let go of the threads of each other. We will not shut each other out.

Another year of growing, changing, learning and, inevitably, being let down by life and the fact that it just keeps going, rather than pausing on the days when everything is going well.

Us not being us had cut off all of our oxygen. We’d all been suffocating.

Us

Mourning the fact my life isn’t turning out exactly how it should, especially considering what a brilliant and amazing person I am.

We’d both worked so hard to get better. Us, our love, was our reward. We were supposed to be basking in the harvest of our efforts, not tumbling back down into dark rabbit holes.

This is life, Lottie. There’s no such thing as a happy ending. Because there’s no such thing as an ending. More days keep coming, some good some bad. You can’t just stay limboed in a moment of happiness – that’s not realistic.

Happy Ever After doesn't exist even in friendships. That's so sad.

It’s what people do who get put with people they don’t get on with. It could happen to anyone.

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