Leaving everything behind

When you leave everything behind and start a new life, it's difficult to let go of the past. But when you leave room for new beginnings, you become a different, better person.

Always remember who has always been there for you no matter what

The first few months after moving, there were many days that I questioned why I did this to myself. Why I left all my friends and family behind and moved across the country to this giant, consuming city. Why I plunged myself into a job I knew nothing about. Why I moved in and spent all my time with

𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒚, 𝑻𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅

It is a hard thing to do. To leave them behind. To move on. Knowing, you gave them everything you had.

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will…

honor yourself uniquely, do what works for you, and leave everything that doesn’t behind. ~ MCKEL (HILL) KOOIENGA