Comments on: DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things

By: Jes

Jes — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:51:16 +0000

This is beauty.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:25:23 +0000

These words ring so beautiful and true. Sugar, your writing heals souls. thank you. thank you. thank you.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:04:27 +0000

This letter has changed my life. I have been abusing myself, physically and mentally, because I feel responsible for ending a relationship because I was not in love with the person anymore. I felt like no one will ever love me as much as him and I did not deserve anything good for hurting him. After reading “Tiny Beautiful Things,” particularly this letter, I am now able to sit and say, “Everything’s going to be okay. Everything is okay” without anxiety, and most importantly, with confidence. Thanks, Sugar, and thanks Seeking Wisdom for asking this question.

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:08:15 +0000

And I’m crying. Just beautiful.

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:14:51 +0000

This: “One hot afternoon during the era in which you’ve gotten yourself ridiculously tangled up with heroin you will be riding the bus and thinking what a worthless piece of crap you are when a little girl will get on the bus holding the strings of two purple balloons. She’ll offer you one of the balloons, but you won’t take it because you believe you no longer have a right to such tiny beautiful things. You’re wrong. You do.”

Anyone who has ever suffered so much that drugs seem like the only answer, or fallen into the arms of drug pleasure because nothing really matters anymore, and has flailed to get back out of the quick sand that drug dependency is, and managed to escape alive and unscathed, will know this feeling well.

This made me cry.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:09:39 +0000

As a 24 year old woman literally struggling, wanting so badly to give up,

This made me cry. And gave me some encouragement. I don’t know you, but I am so very grateful for your words.

By: marianne

marianne — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:43:01 +0000

this might have changed my life. i hope to do the same for someone else.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:15:38 +0000

This article is profound; From the first time I read it to all the times I’ve revisited it since, I find it to be increasingly insightful and empowering. Thank you so much for this beautifully written, honest and encouraging piece of work. It has definitely made an impact on my life.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:15:20 +0000

Of course I’m crying. Beautiful writing.

By: Justme

Justme — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:36:47 +0000

“Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go.” Awww Sugar, this is so me right now. I held on so tight I was choking myself. Letting go was the hardest and the best thing I could do. Your words touch my heart. Thank you.