Imagine for a moment, that your life is exactly where you thought it would be. That plan you had—yeah, it played out. That dream you always wanted and worked so hard for, it came true. There’s a genie perched on your shoulder, granting you all your wishes, all your dreams. Take a step back, admire where you are. Now, look back. Back at where you came from. Is this how you imagined it would be? Is there anything missing? Are you the same person as you were when you made this dreams?
Change is inevitable. It will happen whether you want it to or not. Your life will uplift, like a house in a tornado spinning around the neighborhood before it lands literally miles from where it was uprooted. This is life, no dreams, no genies granting wishes. This is life and it turns and changes without your consent. You can imagine all you want, that life you dreamed of, those dreams you had, will not always come about in a way that you always thought. We all have a vision, an idea, of how things will be in our lives. Take a moment, just look at where you are right now. Is it where you’d thought you’d be six months ago? A year ago?
Your life is what you make it. Your happiness is something that you have to find on your own. We all have things, we have people that bring us joy. But when those things and people are gone, what do you have left? You. You are the only constant in your life. You can dwell, you can observe, you can learn from all the things that were, all the things that you wanted in this life, and only you can better your future. There is so much negative in this world, so many problems that we as just one person cannot help. But your happiness, that is something you can control. In all the things that we can’t control that is one that you can.
Looking back on my life, and where things are now, even where things were a year ago, I would’ve never thought this is where I would be. No way Jose. I had plans, I had goals and ideas, places I was going to be at the age that I am now. I had love, a love I thought was so strong that God himself had designed us in such a way that our love would pass on through to our next life. And even the life after that. I can remember once, he had said that in our next life, we would be orcas. My favorite animal, and we would live and die as lovers in that life. But it still wouldn’t be long enough. So then we would be lions; he would be king of the pack and I, his lioness at his side. And even that wouldn’t be long enough. So then, to finish our journey, after many lifetimes of such a strong bond, we would come back as trees. I don’t recall what kind of trees, but I’m pretty sure he said we would be redwoods. We would grow tall and our branches would brush as we grew close together. Our love would continue on as we became one with nature, trees helping to keep this Earth as alive as possible. And our love would live on.
What a joke. Looking back on things like that, things that he said that made it seem like he really did love me. How can you love someone and hurt them the way that he did? At the end, he said he was so blindly angry with me, and he had no reason as to why. He was just mad at me. So mad at life that his anger and resentment drove a dagger between as and somehow into my heart. He pulled the dagger out, my heart still on the end, and he ran off with it. He took my heart and left me in the dark, but still managed to take his and give it to someone else. He found love so quickly, it had to have never been real for us. His heart was never mine to begin with, but I wholeheartedly gave him mine. I had fully trusted him to safeguard it, ensure that it would never be abandoned again. Little did I know he would do the one thing that I had nightmares about. He would abandon me the same way that everyone in my life had done.
So I look back. I imagine where I would be now, where I wanted to be, where I thought that we would be. And I am the only one left, I make my own happiness. I fell in love again, in love with myself and the life that I can make for myself. I am the only constant in my life.
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Manna Mac
Where does one start one of these? I have been writing for as long as I can remember. First story I ever wrote was at age 6, and I really haven't stopped since!
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