let's take a walk

"Let me take a walk.

Let me walk away and run away from all the troubles as I leave them all behind, crammed between the orange lockers and the little rolling backpacks. Let me escape the watchful, judgmental, cold, empty eyes and the constant negativity. Let me run away from the responsibilities of life as I realize how easy it is to let go of it all and return to a childhood innocence.

Only if I could. Only if I could leave everything behind and walk away from it as easy as that. But I can't. If I was going to leave everything behind so simply, I never would have come this far. I never would have invested my heart into finding the light in my life, into each and every word I have ever uttered.

I wish it were easier, but it's not. But what can I do but keep moving forward? I have to stop looking at what's holding me down but rather what keeps my head above water no matter what. Stress? It'll never stop me from doing what I love because I control it. IT does not control me."

-- November 3, 2015

I still agree.

-- December 7, 2016