“Get out in it. Wander. Be lost. Eat real food. Order the steak this time instead of the salad. Or both, why choose?
Drink the expensive bubbly. Don’t save it. Light a flare, hold it up for everyone to see. Get outside. Sink your feet into the mud. Touch the sky. Call the friends you miss.
Quit something you’re good at if it’s killing you. Read a book that doesn’t promise prescriptions or answers.
Remember your mother. Speak to the ghost of your father.
Forgive. All is forgiven. Laugh at the wrong part of the joke. Find beauty in the gutters, in the broken. If you’re going to love, don’t ask it to save you. Make art again, like it’s the first time. Weep for those that time has left behind.
Build a fire; let it burn your life. Hold the ones beside you.
Hug them close. Get dressed up for no good reason at all.
Let the neighbors talk. Dance with a purple lobster on a street that doesn’t have a name. Tell someone you’re in love with them; why the hell not, there’s not time to waste.
Listen to the ordinary good birds. They’re singing. You have to listen for them. They want you to hear them.” Rainier Wylde
GABRIELA YARELIZ 