i had a dream that i fought, i had a dream that i played the piano for Alex Isley, and i had a dream about my professor. REM sleep was on one last night
Because the truth is, everyone is an inconvenience at some point. Everyone will need reassurance. Everyone will take up space. The difference is whether you are the kind of person people are glad they didn’t give up on. And maybe that’s what love actually measures—not perfection, not ease, not simplicity, not necessarily what could be gained, but your worth.
The phrase “to be loved is to be worth the inconvenience” has really radicalized me because I find it so true whenever I think of the people who love me the most—my lover, my friends, my family, my community, the ones who stay.
Because when I think of them, it’s not because I’ve made life easy for them. It’s because, at some point, they decided I was worth the effort it takes to keep choosing me.