Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive. Jessi Kirby More Quotes by Jessi Kirby More Quotes From Jessi Kirby But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it’s happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it’s scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it’s worth it. Jessi Kirby scary choices giving But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad. Jessi Kirby realizing choices I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both. Jessi Kirby emotion mother water We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. Jessi Kirby persons shows I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance. All sounds of the world carrying on like it always had. So much could change or be lost, and still, the rest of the world went on like it was nothing. It didn't seem wrong, but it didn't seem right either. I'd gone on today like it was nothing. I'd laughed and felt happy and forgotten for a little while that this was now a world without my brother in it. Jessi Kirby distance eye brother You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it. Jessi Kirby our-destiny destiny sometimes Life is made of moments and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact Then there's a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep. Jessi Kirby lonely sleep night I’ve got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold. Jessi Kirby regret years thinking That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together. Jessi Kirby possibility together thinking That's the best part. The how. Jessi Kirby It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you'll always remember, aren't the ones you can force, or go looking for. I've always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you. Jessi Kirby force seems remember How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or given up without ever taking a chance, or settled in life because it's easier, or they're scared, or whatever other excuses? How many people need a reminder of who they once were? Jessi Kirby chance people needs Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting. Jessi Kirby time-goes-by waiting We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it. Jessi Kirby chance shows feels Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working. Jessi Kirby realizing chance life-is But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have? Jessi Kirby lasts chance wanted
