Reposted from Madiha

"maybe it's more like you said before, all of us being cracked open. like, each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. and then these things happen - these people leave us, or don't love us, or don't get us, or we don't get them, and we lose and we fail and we hurt one another. and then the vessel cracks open in places. and, i mean, yeah, once the vessel cracks open, the end become inevitable. but there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and we finally fall apart. and it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through the cracks and into others through theirs. when did we finally see each other face to face? not until you saw into my cracks and i saw into yours. before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. but once the vessel cracks open, the light can get in. the light can get out."