Stephanie Pusca’s Reviews > Conversations on Love > Status Update

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.

A broken heart is an open heart.

Find the courage to love with vulnerability again.

It’s important to realise that we’re still ourselves, that there’s an essential self that’s still there, separate to the future you may have lost.
A friend, a sister, a mother, a person with purpose.

One of the worst parts of heartbreak, is waking up and remembering.
I knew the future I had hoped for was no longer possible.

How do you mourn the loss of a future you never really had?

To stay conscious enough to see the smallest moments of our lives in all their shining detail.
To fully understand and see all the versions of ourselves, so that we might find the courage to show them to another human, in the light, and trust that they will love us for all of them.

That’s a wonderful thing, when you see the goodness of someone you love, and you watch them pouring that goodness into your child.

The friends I've known since I was a child are the most precious relationships. No matter how distant you have become from yourself, no matter how much your relationship/career has changed you, you can still connect with a person who knew you when you were a teenager. An old friendship is one of those things that helps you remember who you are in the world, and that's so valuable.