“Yeah. I like to travel. I like helping people. It doesn’t give me that steady, content, baseline happiness you guys have.”
“Did Swift give you that?”
“It was a different kind of happy, like falling down a waterfall differs from floating in a rowboat on a slow river. Some elements were similar, like the certainty that I’m important to him, that he loves me more than life itself and that he cares about the smallest, most boring detail of my life just because it’s mine. It was nice to have that. Other than that, it was a wild ride and lacked the safe and steady reliability you have. You come back to each other for balance and tranquility and there’s a calm and stable happiness around you even when you’re worried, overworked or angry. I want that.”
“Knowing what you want, phrasing it preci
