@Sydai01 24 February 2021 more from that month

I thought when I lost you, I’d never be happy again. For so long, you were all I could think of and every happy thought or memory was tied to you. I buried the pain from what happened between us and tried to distance my heart so that I could try to stop hurting, eventually.. And truthfully, I really didn’t know if the anguish would ever subside. It seemed that all I could focus on was losing you and the sadness that caused.. But along the way, something miraculous happened to me when I went looking for hope.. I found myself instead. All the things I had lost in us, all the parts of me that vanished as I tried to make you happy..they slowly started to reappear. I had spent so much time chasing you or vying for your attention that I had stopped doing the things that made my soul happy. Incredulously, every day that passed..I rediscovered a little more of myself. With those remembered pieces, the pain began to subside slowly.. a bit more each day.. Until finally, the hurt was much like you- a distant memory of a time and a feeling that couldn’t hurt me anymore. When you walked away from me, I thought I had lost everything, and the funny thing, just the opposite happened. I found it all instead- everything that mattered and that I had needed all along: My happiness, my peace and most of all, love for myself. You gave me the greatest gift of all by letting me go...you pointed the way back to me. And now, I’m never looking back on the lessons I learned from you.. I’ve got no interest in living in the past and revisiting the pain..there’s nothing there for me now. I found a love in my heart and a peace in my soul ..and it was because of me, not you. It’s strange, really..that the end of our relationship wasn’t really the end at all.. It’s actually the beginning of everything good that I needed to find again- I had been lost for too long, but not anymore. I’m on my way back home now. Thank goodness for the broken roads that led me to exactly where I was always meant to be. -ravenwolf #Giveaways