The Things We Leave Behind
It is an act of great courage to be in a place we never thought we would be and to be okay with it. There is a time of sadness and grieving for what could have been, should have been, would have been if, to our thinking - things had been different. The 'what ifs' are the things we leave behind when we move on. We leave words unspoken, feelings often kept inside that feel impossible to speak, there are a lot of threads left severed or tangled so tight that we would not know how to unwind them. The threads that bind us to places, people and the wishes and hopes we had. Those are the things we will miss the most. Other times, we feel it in our hearts when it is time to go. When we have done everything we can and cannot bring ourselves to go any further. We leave in our wake the disappointment, the anger, the hurt that was eating away at our souls in search of something that will bring us back to a place of joy and contentment. Where we can rediscover our sense of self, where