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Don't Continue in Contentment

The Right Choices Aren't Always the Easiest.

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It takes bravery.

Sometimes you don't realize you're sinking until you're drowning, and you have to make the decision to cut the rope or let it pull you along. Maybe you'd be content at the bottom of the ocean, but it's not where you belong. This is a lesson that I've learned recently, and along the path of learning this, I lost myself just a little.

It started with the sleep, sleeping too much, sleeping not enough. It continued with the stress and anxiety: What if what I'm saying is wrong, what if what I am wearing is wrong, what if how I am acting, loving, living, is all wrong. Nobody should decide how and why you choose to live your own life. You as a single individual, have your very own purpose. And when I realized that I was becoming who I was not for someone else, I had to decide: Continue in contentment, or break for happiness.

In some cases, when you break away from happiness you're also breaking a person. And it takes a lot of convincing yourself that breaking someone to save yourself, can also save them. Maybe not now, and maybe not soon, but if you are in a situation where one person is drowning and the other is not then you have to know that somewhere deep down, this other person a-float is also continuing in contentment. Being with someone is being your absolute truest and loving, while the other is also their most comfortable and encouraged. Heartbreak isn't easy, but not all of the right choices are the easiest.

This is just one situation, that recently, happened to me. Throughout life, you will always face obstacles, not always sure of the trial and error that may lie ahead, but with time you will learn, experience, and learn some more. You will change as a person because everything does. People grow, seeds grow to trees, flowers bloom into beauty, life is all about the journey of who we were and who we are becoming, and that is one thing that will never change. You will always be more than what you, we're the previous day, as long as you try your hardest to make the right decisions no matter the difficulty lying beneath them. You can't allow yourself to travel backward in life, there's no turning back when your train is off its track, so you either change the course or watch it crash.


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