Sometimes, we catch ourselves questioning our past choices.

Mostly the bad ones that left us attached to people and places for longer than our comforts preferred.

For every time we do that, we have to remind ourselves that life is a series of choices that are based on the intellect we had in those moments. What we do with that awareness will determine the course of our lives.

Whether we fold into the false world of peace, or move towards a better definition of it.

If we let the past stop us, or propel us.

How we use our experiences to advise, and how to prevent yourself from stopping.

What smiles and tears you choose to share and motivate others to do the same.

When we choose ourselves, over choosing other’s needs.

Why we heal the child and (young) adult within, despite other’s wishes to keep those spirits sedated.

Who we save a seat for, and who to leave behind.

This is a life filled with opportunities and support for those of us that have walked the hard paths, and kept walking no matter what hurts. As we do it for ourselves, we thank others that wish to follow and cheer us on.

We cheer them on as well for doing the same, and making a life around it.

And we honor those that lost their way, or gone before they could continue, but never lost our love for the time we shared in this world.

None of us are alone. All of us are loved.

Never forget that.

I’ll make sure I won’t, either.