Cole Mellendorf

Chicago
Observations • Poems • Travel
Paying attention to everyday life.

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The older you get, the fewer “first times” happen without you noticing.

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It takes surprisingly little to remind you of ten years ago.

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Your life is full of places where a different decision almost happened.

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The hardest goodbyes usually happen gradually.

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Quietly grateful.

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The older a memory gets, the more it becomes about the feeling instead of the facts.

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Every generation mistakes its routines for permanence.

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The people you think about most are rarely the people you spent the most time with.

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You don’t realize how much of your identity is built around familiar faces until they’re gone.

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Remember this feeling.

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There are places that still expect the older you to walk through the door.

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Nothing to prove.

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Most strangers stay strangers because one person never started talking.

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The best stories usually begin as ordinary days.

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Home changes every time someone leaves it.

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Here on purpose.

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The life you imagined at twenty quietly disappears without telling you.

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Something clicked today.

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The longest conversations are often the ones that happen in silence.

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There are people you only remember when the weather changes.