How I did it: Time. I gave myself the time i needed. The time according to my emotions. I may not be fully recovered from this experience, but i know that i am ready to move on to bigger and better things in life. I realized that i don't want to wake up one day and realize that i lived more than half of my life dwelling on a shameful past. Accept things for what they are.

I woke up this morning from a horrible nightmare. When i woke up i realized that i had been crying my eyes out in my sleep. That just really proves that some cuts take years to heal. It happened years ago and i've accepted things for what they are. It is what it is. The situation literally broke me....sometimes i still feel broken. The only difference now is i'm willing to repair myself."

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
-B. Button

Lessons & tips:

1. Sink or Swim? SWIM! You have one life to live. Don't allow another person to take that away from you. I hope you can find it in yourself to survive this.
    
2. TIME. Give YOURSELF as much time as possible. It may take minutes, days, weeks, months, or even YEARS to figure yourself out. Feel the way you think you should feel. Sort things out.
3.  Soul search. Figure out who you are. Are you the same person you once were? Know who you want to become.
4. Acceptance.
5.  Take a stroll through the GOOD....the BAD....and the UGLY memories.
6. Appreciate those that are still with you. They are still around for a reason. Use that energy to love the ones that love you back.
7. Leave it up to FATE. If one day far from now, if it's meant to happen than all the pieces will fall into place.
8. Be happy with yourself. Even if you haven't found that significant other yet, you can still be happy and SINGLE.
9. Do things that make you happy.
10. DISTANCE. AVOIDANCE.
11. "You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went; you can swear and curse the fates – but when it comes to the end, you have to let go."- B.B.
12. LOVE LIFE. LOVE YOUSELF. Life is short and beautiful. Don't wake up one day to realize that you've been stuck in history.

Resources: The simple things....

• Time
• YOURSELF.
• Family and Friends.

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Mar 28, 2010, 01:04PM PDT | 2 comments | 5 cheers