We Are Infinite
I don t know if I will have time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place when I started high school and you helped me. Even if you didn t know what I was talking about or known someone who s gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don t happen. And there are people who forget what it s like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know this will all be stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody s mom or dad. But right now these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here. And I am looking at her. And she s so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you re listening to that
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