Rules (Harry Styles)

Prologue

Prologue

When were little were always told to reach for the stars, dare to dream, to face our fears and fight for what we believe in. Were always told those things, but no one ever told us how hard life would be, how you have to sacrifice your dreams for something, something you need, something that is absolutely vital to you and much more important than what you want.

When your younger you have some sort of vision for yourself, what you want to be doing, what you want to have and what kind of people you want around you. I always thought I'd live in some big house, in some movie cliché where I make breakfast and my corporate husband would kiss me goodbye in the morning. That our wedding would've been magical and our children would all be smart and beautiful, loved and healthy, and I always thought, that I would never get older from that moment, the moment I would be happy. Frankly, that's not how it works.

Love is far more deranged, manipulative, and makes you extremely impulsive.

My life will never be that way, I will have money troubles, and I don't think I'm getting married anytime soon, I live in a small apartment, and the people around me happen to be criminals. I'm not sure if I'm happy, if I ever will be, but I know I can't chase my dreams whenever I want, fall in love and not sacrifice anything. Because that's what life revolves around. Love.

And mistakes.

Because, life isn't one big fairy tale, it's not smooth sailing. Your not going to be married happily all the time, if ever, your not going to be in some big house, your not going to be married to some Prince Charming and your children, if any, will not all be beautiful geniuses.

Those things only happen in dreams. And were forced to face the rules of reality.