An End Is Nothing More Than a Beginning
Jul. 13th, 2019 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maybeawriterFor those who know me, this will come as little shock, but when I couldn't sleep tonight I turned out Eat, Pray, Love. It's my go to, and has been for years.
I'm always drawn to a few different scenes in the movie.
1. Liz comments to her best friend that "since the age of 15 I've either been in a relationship or getting out of one."
2. Liz's letter to David where she describes ruin being the road to transformation.
I have been single for 4 months now - the longest period in my life since high school, and quite honestly it has been the most liberating and wonderful time in my life. Yes, there is heartbreak and hurt, but that ruin as been my road to transformation.
I see myself more clearly now than I have in the past 10 years. And while those 10 years have been full of wonderful memories, most importantly the birth of my daughter and the start of a new career, they are also marred by the loss of the things I was passionate about.
It would be easy to say I don't know why I gave up on the things I loved, but I know. And that truth is a hard one to swallow sometimes. But the important thing is, I know, and I can avoid that mistake going forward.
So here's to ruin and the transformation it brings.
I'm always drawn to a few different scenes in the movie.
1. Liz comments to her best friend that "since the age of 15 I've either been in a relationship or getting out of one."
2. Liz's letter to David where she describes ruin being the road to transformation.
I have been single for 4 months now - the longest period in my life since high school, and quite honestly it has been the most liberating and wonderful time in my life. Yes, there is heartbreak and hurt, but that ruin as been my road to transformation.
I see myself more clearly now than I have in the past 10 years. And while those 10 years have been full of wonderful memories, most importantly the birth of my daughter and the start of a new career, they are also marred by the loss of the things I was passionate about.
It would be easy to say I don't know why I gave up on the things I loved, but I know. And that truth is a hard one to swallow sometimes. But the important thing is, I know, and I can avoid that mistake going forward.
So here's to ruin and the transformation it brings.
