People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
Interpretation
Caring for others and experiencing loss reflects the significance of our connections.
In this quote, John Green emphasizes the importance of human relationships and emotional bonds. He suggests that it is natural and healthy to care about others and that the feelings of missing someone after they are gone highlight the value they brought to our lives. This sentiment underscores the idea that meaningful relationships enrich our existence and that their absence can evoke a sense of longing, which signifies the depth of our connections.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of nurturing relationships.
Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.
Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.
We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.
We don't do enough to help older people recognize how much they matter.
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life.
Muslims should live like brothers.
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