There's something refreshing about creating a new chapter of life--starting this new blog as if it somehow erases the the past, starting a new school year hoping for a better future, getting over a summer fling believing that there's someone better out there, moving into a new apartment after a vacation far away from home...
Before this trip to Hawaii, I spent some time feeling like my world was falling apart. I found myself searching for a purpose in this world and a desire to go on. I was physically tired, emotionally drained, and simply too tired to care for anything. What happened to me? What really matters to me? What used to matter did not seem so important all of sudden. Have I done a horrid job of having proper priorities in life?
How could a person wake up one day and feel like everything that one has worked for no longer holds the same value in one's life? Was it just a realization or devastation setting in?
Time is an incredible medicine for healing if you will let it... A lot of the times though, we have a hard time letting go. We keep hanging onto what we once had even if it no longer exists. Sometimes, there are truths that we rather not accept because accepting it would be admitting defeat. At the same time, by not accepting the truth, we are only fighting a lost battle...