The Comfort Book

You have felt other things. You will feel other things again.

To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

Be humble because you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars

Give yourself some love. You can’t change the past. You can’t change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter

Be curious. Go outside. Get to bed on time. Hydrate. Breathe from the diaphragm. Eat happy. Get a routine baggy enough to live in. Be kind. Accept that not everyone will like you. Appreciate those who do. Don’t be defined. Allow fuck-ups. Want what you already have. Learn to say no to things that get in the way of life. And to say yes to the things that help you live

The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave

You need instead to accept the unknowability of the future, and that there are versions of that future that could be better than the

present. Hope, in its simplest form, is the acceptance of possibility.

Take some bread, preferably warm and fresh. An olive roll, pita, whatever. Tear, and dunk, and enjoy

Don’t worry about fitting in. Be your own tribe