A good time to check in on yourself is when you start feeling homesick while sitting at home; when safe, familiar places feel alien.

A good time to check in on a relationship is when you feel like you miss them even though they’re sitting right next to you.

If you feel this way, one of you has been gone. Maybe not physically gone, but…distant somehow. You should try to find out what war you’re fighting and try to find a way home. You will feel better for it.

This weekend, a very important lesson was reinforced: good people can and will make mistakes

And a new lesson was learned: good people will probably make additional mistakes while trying to protect others

Your mistakes do not make you a bad person. Forgive yourself, if only a little. Talk to the people you know you have hurt, and make sure you have not over corrected. It is very, very easy to over correct.

I have over 100 characters and most of them are coping mechanisms for my personal sense of self. I feel like this makes a lot of them kind of sad and depressing and I post about them a lot and I’m kind of sorry but not really because I need the catharsis that writing about them brings.

An open letter to everyone who felt that last personal post:

What we are going through is difficult. It will hurt. But I want you to know that I love you.

Each and every one of you suffering, I love you.

While it is impossible to know who they would think of the you you’ve become, it is equally impossible to think of whom you would have been without them. Their love has touched you and will remain with you forever. To some, there is a comfort in that.

I wish I could offer you more comfort, but I can only tell you that I love you and encourage you to message me if you need to talk.

We all need to talk; but only when we are ready.