Ally Abrams
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Happiness: A Pursuit, a Decision, or Both?
Is happiness a pursuit, a decision, or both? Maybe we need to pursue happiness, but differently than we generally think about doing so. Maybe pursuing hopes, goals, dreams, success, status, etc. is just the backdrop of the story and the real story is happiness itself.
By Ally Abrams4 years ago in Poets
"Contradictions?" A Musing on How to Navigate Life and Love
For me, and many others, love is difficult to come by, and even harder to maintain. It makes me wonder if I, or my partners, or anyone in this world is really doing it wrong, or if it's just impossible for love to exist in a way that doesn't chip away at people. Maybe we're all simultaneously doing it completely wrong and inherently right, all at once, regardless of the outcome? Maybe the goal of love is not to perfect it, but to merely experience it and grow from it. After all, with all the contradictions that have to coexist to make it exist in the first place, it's a wonder we ever find it at all, let alone sometimes keep it alive. As confusing and frustrating as the contradictions may be, I think they are also beautiful, sometimes hauntingly so, and so I have written this poem about them:
By Ally Abrams4 years ago in Poets