You've Escaped

"i think we try to write our own endings a lot of the time instead of just letting life work itself out."

— caitlin slinging truthsandwiches.

truth

• me:  does he have a tumblr?
• fatima:  no, he's just a normal human.

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you know, i bitch about florida all the time and i truly cannot wait to move elsewhere after i graduate college but this place is in my blood and on my skin and you might think it’s just a touristy hellhole but if you’re from here, you know all about the glory of being surrounded almost entirely by water, having palm trees and then driving west to have swamp and sawgrass and wild animals, the way this state is so big that it has areas that feel entirely different from each other, the afternoon storms that you nap through on top of your sheets, how jacaranda trees smell in the morning when you leave the windows open at night, the ability to walk barefoot into your backyard and pick out the oranges you’re going to make juice with for breakfast, the way the air smells depending on whether or not it’s going to rain or how bright the sun is that day, the atlantic on one side, the gulf on the other side, the thick feeling of being at sea level and one with the moisture that forms on the back of your neck, torturing and challenging you with its temperamental elements, forcing you to learn to live with the sun in your eyes.

i don’t want to spend my life here but it’ll always be home.