I wrote this letter to my mom, do you think that I should send it?
"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go." ~Author Unknown
I have been sitting here staring at that, and contemplating what I want to say. I think I want to say goodbye. The time has come, my burden has been lifted. I will grieve but not for my loss, I will grieve what I never had. This has been a long time coming. I will be ok, I will survive. There will be yet another band-aid on my heart, but it won't be because of you, it will be because of the person you never could be. I have learned to stop searching. I have learned that no matter who I am, it will never be enough for you. The time has come for me to be me. The time has come that I start looking out for me and mine, to start protecting them from the anguish that always will be. I am ready to move on. I am ready to heal. I am ready to stop seeking validation. The only validation I need is mine. I will never be free if I continually seek it. I will never know the why's or the why not's, and am done searching. Today it stops, I have reached the point of finality. I am ready to close the door and move on. I am ready to let you go and move on. I am ready to move forward with my exsistance. I am ready to redefine myself.
I am done protecting you. I will no longer be humiliated by who you are or what you have done to me. I am going to face everything head on. I learned something, I learned that what has been done doesn't define who I am. I shouldn't be embarassed by what I have been through. I shouldn't be ashamed, I didn't do it. I guess I thought that by pretending it didn't happen, I could change you. I thought I could change the past. But alas, I can not. I can only change who I am today. I am chosing to win. I am chosing to survive.
I became a better person in spite of you. I survived in spite of you. I was a victim by chance, now I am a fighter by choice. Everything you did made me that much stronger. Now, I am letting you go for this is goodbye. I wish you all the best. I hope that someday you find peace. I forgive you. I don't say those words for you, I say them for me. I refuse to let this consume me one more day. I refuse to walk around with this weight on my shoulder and weigh me down. Like I said, I grieve not for you, but for who you couldn't be. I will no longer grieve for who I couldn't be, today I start to become that person.
Goodbye. Forever.
2006-09-02
21:36:04
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