Thoughts in the middle of the night.

It is your responsibility to communicate your feelings.

The people around you, however much they love you, can only see what you allow them to. If you want something from them, you have to say as much, you have to let them know. Otherwise they're just tossing pebbles in a pond hoping a wish comes true...and so are you.

We make a lot of assumptions in life--about the world, about other people, about ourselves. It's easy to get caught up in them and forget that not everyone else will see things the same way. But the fact is, if you want something and you never ask for it, you have only yourself to blame. Ask and ye shall receive. I always used to get annoyed by that, when I was little, in Sunday School, because it was presumably about God, and if He already knows what you need, why do you have to ask? But like a lot of things from Sunday School, it's not really so much about us and God as it is about us and other people. And it's not really so bad to ask. Better that, than always wondering what would have been, or always hurting over things that were never said.

Even if you paint yourself colors, you may be the only one who sees them.