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  1. Jul 2020
    1. except I decide I can’t live this way, and walk over to him and place my hand on his shoulder, lean in close and whisper, I love your argyle socks, and he grabs my hand, the way a memory holds tight in the smallest corner. He smiles and says, I always hope someone will notice.

      for things like that, you have to express your feelings, because you never know how that person feels towards you, we never know that person's reaction. Sometimes you think negative, but sometimes that negativity becomes positive. That's why you have to let go of fear and jump.

    2. But in this world we’ve been taught too keep our emotions tight, a rubberband ball we worry if one band loosens, the others will begin shooting off in so many directions. So we quiet. I quiet. I eat my cinnamon bread in the bakery watching the old man still sitting at his table, moving his napkin as he drinks his small cup of coffee, and I never say, I think you’re beautiful, except in my head,

      This is how the world expect us to act. I think that sometimes we do not express ourselves about how we feel towards a person, with the thought that if we declare ourselves to that someone later they will reject us, and sometimes fear can outweigh oneself.

    3. And now I’m thinking how much I want to rush up to the stranger in the plaid wool hat and tell him how much I love his eyes,

      This shows that when she feels something special towards a person, she goes and expresses it to that special person.