Painless

“Every mentally healthy person creates art,”

She said art was anything you did that interpreted the world, something that reached out and communicated to other people

Hurting yourself—or other people—is just an abstract, intellectual concept that you have to learn to not do;

Come on, do it—come on, do it. And then she does: she glances back at me.

I bust into a big goofy grin—I just can’t help it.

“Um, I’ve never had a phone. But you know what, I’ll get one, and the only number I’ll put in it is yours.”

My face feels hot.

Sad and hopeful.

Hard and easy.

“Everything.” I said. “Just, everything.”