After years of struggling to retain my belief in LOVE, I’d settled into a melancholy acceptance best summarized, as many things are, with a Morrissey lyric: Love is natural and real / But not for you, my love.
Like, love was real and awesome and some people were lucky enough to build a sweet, fun family with their true love and then grow into one of those adorable elderly couples who dress really great and are still in love when they’re 80, but that’s just not my path in this life. I get other things. Awesome things. I’ve got nothing to complain about…
Michelle Tea: Charmed Honey and Forced Ovulation | xoJane
(This is meant another way in context, but it is nice to find someone who expresses what I’ve been feeling forever just so.)