As you walk down the bumpy pathway that is life you are constantly having to make decisions. Some of which you are glad to make and others not so much. Some of these decisions are hard and some of them are easy: should I do this or should I do that. You never truly know which is right until you have to deal with the consquences which can be either good or bad. You just don’t know, and it’s a hard thing to make a decision when you’re so unsure. It’s especially difficult to say goodbye.
There comes a point in life when you have to choose. You have to choose one thing and let go of another. You have to decide even if you don’t know which is the better option. It’s scary, but if you don’t make the decision odds are that further down the road it will be made for you which could lead to your unhappiness. So what do you do? I don’t even know the answer to that question. I’m still trying to figure it out, but I’d like to believe that there are people who would help me figure it out.
I’ve found myself in the past having to remove people that I care for from my life because they don’t fit with the person I am trying to be. Yes, tears were shed and hearts were broken, but if I look back and think about whether I made the right decision or not, I always come back to the same answer. Yes. It wasn’t easy, but I’m a much better and happier person for doing it. I didn’t make those decisions lightly, but I’m glad that I did.
Not every decision involves removing a toxic person from your life. Sometimes you have to give something important to you up so that you can focus on more important things like school, a relationship, a friendship, or even a career. By losing one thing you essentially gain another, and just because you give something up, that doesn’t mean that you have to give it up forever in most cases. You just have to wait until the time is right to add it back into the many things you juggle on a daily basis.
Recently I’ve had to give up a few things to focus on more important things. In the moment and even for a little while after its difficult to go through that change, to enforce the new behavior. By closing the door on the old chapter of your life you can move on and start writing the new one. It’s hard to say goodbye, but in the end, I’d like to believe that it’ll be worth it.
