“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
At the start of this year I came across this quote (probably in another okcupid user’s journal) and I decided to apply it to my life. It’s a simple philosophy, it’s easy enough to comply with and it certainly saves you some heartbreak.
Ever since then, I’ve seen the quote pop up in many places. It mostly seems to be attributed to Mark Twain. Now I haven’t read a lot of Twain recently, but it sounds a little too self-help ish for his era. A quick and lazy internet search reveals that it has also been attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (which seems unlikely again) and someone named Nina Potts-Jeffries.
Obviously this comes to mind:
and, more interestingly:
Anyway, I watched the rather creepy first episode of the new season of The Walking Dead tonight. Speaking of philosophies to live your life by, I’m now going to ship in a large supply of canned food and nail my doors and windows shut every night.
