1. plants on the balcony of a bustling city - the green in sharp contrast to the greys of the concrete we try to build our homes in.
2. no matter where we are, at least two of us will be looking up to the moon and the stars at the same time, wishing someone else was too.
3. when you pour your heart and soul into a creative outlet for the first time, and someone you love gazes at it in awe and tells you how wonderful you are.
4. babies in strollers looking out to the big big world from their nestled blankets in pastel colors.
5. when you say you don’t eat green peas and the person you’re eating with offers to take all your peas and give you more of something else you can eat from their plate.
6. the warmth that blooms in your body when you kiss someone you have dreamt of kissing for so, so long.
7. coming home to someone who stayed up for you when you said you’d be home late.
8. when someone asks you to text them when you get home.
9. cooking with someone.
10. two people sharing an umbrella, their hands slightly touching, yearning to hold each other.
11. when you’re in a bookstore and you open a book and try to smell it and you catch someone across the room smiling at you because they know and they understand how lovely it feels.
12. when someone shows you something and says, “this reminded me of you”.
13. the warmth that comes from holding a hand and getting a hug from someone.
14. cooking soup for someone and eating it with them on the kitchen table.
15. looking out from the bus’s window as the sun sets and you look to the empty seat next to you and you miss the friend who once sat next to you there.
16. standing in a concert and hearing hundreds of people sing the songs you could only sing to yourself alone because no one, till now, understood what they meant to you.
17. when a baby looks at you from across a room, and finds your eyes, and smiles, and you can’t help but smile back.
18. resting your head on someone’s chest as they hold you and you can feel their heart beating in tandem with yours.
19. sitting on the grass by the pond in a park as you watch the sun set with someone you’re too afraid to love too much.
20. grocery shopping for a meal you are really excited to cook, whether for the self or for someone you adore.
21. someone makes you a playlist of songs that reminded them of you.
22. there are seven billion of us - completely unique and different from each other, and we are never alone because we cry to the same songs and we awe at the same pieces of art and our hearts beat the same in love and grief and joy and there are so many people to look forward to and so much of love to live in —
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