Green is the new Black - Faroe / Faroe Islands
© Vincent Van Duysen
I threw myself a New Year’s Eve party in my new apartment. I live here by myself and I bought it and I made it mine and I love it and I threw myself a party. And I’m looking at myself in the mirror right now and I’m drunk and it’s 11:45 and I need to go back out there. But for one last time this year I’m thinking about how if I stayed with you, we would be married with kids and I’d probably be happy, but I wouldn’t have met anyone in this room right now. And when I think about all the people I wouldn’t have known existed, all the trips I wouldn’t have gone on, all the pictures I wouldn’t have taken, and all the memories I wouldn’t have made if I had stayed with you, it literally breaks my heart, and that’s how I know I made the right choice.
There is no such thing as "I love you, but" and here's why. "I love you, but" is "I love you, just not unconditionally." "I love you, but" is "I don't love everything about you." "I love you, but" is "I would truly love you if it wasn't for this one thing." And we're not accepting conditional love anymore. We're not accepting sometimes love, we're not accepting confusing love, we're not accepting hot and cold, hard to reach, constantly changing love. And we're not accepting love that sometimes feels like hate.
