(For the girl I lit the candles for)

And this is how I’ll finish. 

This is the end goal after all the friends have gone home and the lights are turned down.  To be able to sleep as soundly as possible, to look at the person in the mirror with acceptance, to look forward with strength and hope.

The advice to forget the past has never made any real sense to me.  The past is a mixture of good and bad, light and darkness.  You take the wins with the losses, the joys and the sorrows.  It is a giant Yin-Yang symbol with swirly black and white crashing into each other.

Rather, I think the aim is to make as much peace as possible with it.  The seeds of tomorrow’s joy are often planted in yesterday’s suffering.  

And at the end of the day, all things will be made new, everything sad will become untrue.