If I ever decide to give up on you, just understand how much that took out of me. I'm the type to give endless chances, always have your back when you're wrong and truly accept you for who you are, when the rest of the world doesn't want you, I will. So if i ever give up on you understand it took everything I had left inside of me to leave you alone. Because if I love you and care for you, there isn't anything on this planet I wouldn't do for you.
Love comes with sacrifices. The important kind of love does not exist without the existence of certain losses. It remains to be seen which loss is possible enough to bear, to endure, to relinquish.
— Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery: A Novel (Pantheon, March 21, 2023)
So it is not Citizen Kane Alex is referring to in the "Sculptures of Anything Goes" video... He is referencing Mr Miles fucking Kane in "Give Up" mv...
That explains Alex's turtleneck cosplay...Well this is a turn of events, isn't it...
"Just tired," she muttered. But you could tell that it was not just a lack of sleep, but a lack of hope and happiness that made her act the way she did.
One of the saddest things is giving up. And falling into despair.
When the hard stuff of life hits – whether it’s death or divorce, illness or addiction, betrayal or money problems. And you’ve been praying and waiting, hoping and believing for someone or something to make it all go away. Or at least be with you in it.
But often the hard stuff doesn’t go away. And if no one comes, it’s hard not to give up. It’s hard not to fall into despair.
I’ve talked with a lot of people who have given up. They’re good people. People who care, people who try. People who would help you in a heartbeat if they knew you were hurting.
For most of them, the reason they gave up wasn’t the hard stuff they were facing.
They gave up because they felt isolated. Like no one else knew or cared about what they were dealing with.
They gave up because they felt alone.
Which makes giving up even more tragic. Because none of us are ever alone.
Which is why today’s Feast of the Guardian Angels is so important. To remind us that before we were ever born, God gave each of us a guardian angel.
An angel to be with you, every step of the way. In good times and bad.
To support you, to strengthen you, no matter how hard life hits you.
Even if you don’t really believe in angels. Even if you’re not sure you have a guardian angel. You do. That’s how much God loves you.
No matter what you’ve done. Or how far you think you’ve run. Your angel is there. Now.
Watching over you. Ready to support you, to strengthen you, to be with you. All for the asking.
If you’ve never done it before. And even if you have. Take a moment today to follow the advice of St. Ambrose. “Pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.”
Ask your angel to be with you. In whatever you’re dealing with.
And ask God for the grace to know in your heart – no matter what you’re going through, no matter how hard life hits you – that you are never alone.