Dropping Dead Weight

It's Spring: Time to start cleaning the cobwebs out of the corners of your life - dropping dead weight that's holding you back. Clean out your closet, your basement, your life. Discarding the items that no longer fit, have use, or function.

I've always been pretty good at letting things go, once I finally get around to the cleaning. Overcoming that initial inertia is the really only the hardest part - after that it's always been pretty easy for me to rid myself of that which I won't want any longer. After enough time and space has passed, rarely do I ever look back at the discarded item with longing and regret. So I suppose it's time again, to spring clean my life and start preparing for the warmer weather.

And if that means I'll end up alone, I'm fine with that. I've always liked my companionship quite a lot anyway.

And Just Like That, There it Goes...

Whoosh... that blur flying by was the future you've been envisioning for the last year, completely subsumed by the one you'd been planning on for much longer.

That lump in your throat and the aching in your gut is knowing you'll never see what those little faces will look like, because they will never come to be.

Those tears in your eyes are the frustration of knowing you have to start all over again with a stranger someday, even though you don't want to.

Serves you right for thinking you can get what you want.