love.dreams.life
I wish I hadn’t taken boys, crushes, dating and relationships so seriously when I was sixteen. I wish I’d known there was an entire decade worth of crushes and an entire decade worth of heart-break waiting for me. I wish I’d slowed down and used fewer exclamation marks. I wish I’d known that boys aren’t [...]
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How is it possible that after all that I’ve been through and all that I’ve learned I still find myself attracted to unavailable men? Do you live on the International Space Station? Do you have a beautiful girlfriend you adore to pieces? Do you have emotional issues that have turned you into a commitment-phobe? Are [...]
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When I first got The Agoraphobia, or rather once I’d been in it for a while and progress was so slow that I couldn’t see past the end of my street, I’d pretty much given up on some dreams I’d always thought I’d live one day, even though I wasn’t actively pursuing them. To illustrate my point, over [...]
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You miss listening to music and imagining that every lyric was written for you. Actually, you miss being able to twist every lyric to describe your current situation.Like Hey there Delilah could actually be “Hey there dear Elala.” And Elala is only one consonant and two vowels away from Eleni. See? All songs, ever, could have [...]
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{+ Nick Papakyriazis} A few weeks ago, my mother found me in a moment of abject self-pity. “I-I-I don’t get it. Men just don’t wa-wa-wa-want me.” I said it without thinking. It’s one of those automatic thoughts I have on a regular basis so it didn’t sound odd coming out of my mouth. My mother, [...]
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I worry, sometimes, I may come across as a desperately single woman whose sole purpose in life is to find a boyfriend. As if I believe that a man would somehow complete me in a way only men can; as if the approval of some guy, by sticking his tongue in my mouth, would suddenly [...]
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Remember when all the love stories around me (the real ones) were loud, highly charged and borderline psychotic. People told me it’s only because the quiet love stories aren’t interesting enough to share. It made me want to cry out FOUL and tackle society to the ground. But then a reader sent me her love [...]
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My world is littered with stories of men and women who are supposedly in love. A friend tells me a story about a friend of a friend. She married a man who had cheated on her for months. Everyone knew, except for her. When she found out, when she accepted the truth, she still married [...]
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