It’s funny how someone can completely change your view on something by simply uttering a phrase. It’s funny how you can be hell-bent on doing something that you are blinded to the faults of your plan. You want to runaway from a place that makes you happy just because a few things went wrong, and you close your eyes to the bad things about the place you’re running to.

But there is no such thing as a perfect place. There is nowhere you could possibly go to escape everything bad. There is no running away from mean people and unhappy situations. They follow you forever.

But even though they will follow you, you don’t have to let them make you sad, or angry, or feel like you don’t belong. Even when they try to tear you down at the very seams, try to break every thing that is you, they can’t get to you. Because the people who make others miserable are only doing so so they don’t feel as bad about themselves. Because the people who are cruel and border-line evil don’t deserve your tears, they deserve your pity.

“Just f–k them, man,” he said, “F–k them, they can’t control your life. Just say ‘f–k you’ because they deserve it.”

It’s funny how someone can completely change your view on something by simply uttering a phrase. It’s funny how all it takes to change your mind are a string of words that just happen to mean the world. It’s funny how, when your eyes open, you can actually see.

“When I look at you, I see me,” she said. (And that has made all the difference.)

Open your eyes or you’ll never know what you’re missing.