Imagine a future moment in your life where all of your dreams come true. You know that it’s the greatest moment of your life and you get to experience it with one person. Who is standing next to you?

-p sawyer

It’s quite possible this song was written about me.

When Did Your Heart Go Missing?, by Rooney 

Love don’t come so easily
This doesn’t have to end in tragedy
I have you and you have me
We’re one in a million
Why can’t you see?

I’m waiting, waiting for nothing
You’re leaving, leaving me hanging
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing, yeah?

I meant every word I said
I never was lying when we tucked in bed
I’m retracing every step in my head
What did I miss back then?
I was so, so misled

I’m waiting, waiting for nothing
You’re leaving, leaving me hanging
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?

I don’t understand
How could you forget what we had,
It’s so wrong

I’m waiting, waiting for nothing
You’re leaving, leaving me hanging
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?

Yeah!

Things were so good
We had a little dream
A little dream together
Buy a house, settle down, do our thing
But you disappeared on me
And your heart, your heart went missin’
I don’t know how to find it
I don’t know where it is
I don’t know where your heart went
It was here just the other day
Now it’s gone
I’m gonna call the police
Call the investigator, the heart investigator

It’s not like we try to be heartless.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.

Earlier today, I was assigned the job of cleaning out random things from my youngest sister’s room. I decided to start with her bookshelf, which was overflowing with books from four older siblings, as well as her own. As I was emptying the neglected ones into a big cardboard box, I came across “Love You Forever,” which reminded me of the beautiful morals that we learned as children, but tend to forget as time goes on. The story is about a mother who, as her son grows older, continues to sneak into his room after he’s asleep and sing him this song:

I’ll love you forever
I’ll like you for always
As long as I’m living
My baby you’ll be.

And at the end of the story, he comes and rocks his dying mother, and sings the same song, changing it to “As long as I’m living, My mommy you’ll be.”

The Lake

And so, driven on ceaselessly toward
New shores, carried beyond return into eternal
Darkness, shall we never cast anchor for a
Single day in the ocean of time?

Oh lake! the year has scarcely run its course,
And by the cherished waves that she was meant
To see again, see now! I come alone to sit upon
This stone where you saw her sit!

One evening, do you remember? We
Were sailing in silence, listening over the waters
And beneath the heavens only the distant rhythmic
Beat of oarsmen on your harmonious waves.

Suddenly, a voice, its strains unknown on
Earth, struck echoes from the enchanted shore;
The waters listened, and the voice which is
Precious to me spoke these words:

“Oh time, suspend your flight! and you, fortunate hours,
Stay your journey!
Let us savour the fleeting delights of the finest of our days.

Let us love, then, let us love! Be quick to
Enjoy the fleeting hour!
Mankind has no harbour, time has no shore;
It flows, and we pass on!”

Oh lake! wordless rocks! Caves! Dark
Forest! You who are untouched or made young
Again by time, cherish, fair nature, cherish
At least the memory of that night.

Let the moaning wind, the sighing reed,
The gentle scents of your fragrant air, let all that
Is heard, seen or breathed, let all say:
“They were in love!”

—

-Lamartine
translation from French