In A While | Skott - Once

He realized then that life wasn't perfect, and neither was he, but everything could be "perfect, once in a while".

In those moments, the "sun" would actually break through. It wasn't a permanent fix—happiness was fickle and intimate—but when they smiled, they "smiled together," and the crushing pressure of the everyday dissolved into a singular moment of harmony. For a few heartbeats, the struggle with identity and the "boxes" he put himself in didn't matter. Skott - Once in a While

He felt as though he’d skipped a beat or "fallen between the lines" of a life everyone else seemed to understand. To the world, he was a "freak" or at least an outsider, but he chose to stay a "fool" for the few things that still felt real. He stopped trying to figure out what he was "supposed to do" and decided, for once, that being exactly where he was was okay. The Dispersing Clouds He realized then that life wasn't perfect, and