Doesn’t matter where this was taken, all I know is that I was genuinely happy again.
It is time to let go.
That is what I’ve kept telling myself when I felt like I was just your temporary love. I was just someone you needed. You made me feel like I was your world, the only person you’d ever love and your happiness. I was blinded. I didn’t pay attention to how you felt about me. You never saw our future together yet you played me as you did. I was fooled by your honest looking charms.
Don’t erase the memories, make new ones.
I am a sentimental type so I kept all the special things you gave me since day one. On our break up, I gathered all of them and put it all in my so-called box of memories. I stored it not because I didn’t have the courage to throw it away. It’s because those were happy memories and for me, they don’t deserve to be with trash.
Accept and move on.
I have already accepted the fact that you are forever gone and with another person already. It has been processed in my mind and I would never want to be together again. It was so toxic and I truly deserve better. Moving on took me a month, I cried my heart out until none was left. One day I woke up and realized that people come and go in your life, all you can ever do is keep moving forward.
To new beginnings.
I was able to meet and talk to new people. I was ready to fall in love again but before committing, I should fall in love with myself all over again. Each day, I feel better and better. I am even more confident and happy. Yes, it feels lonely sometimes. But this is just the beginning of my journey towards the happiness I have been longing for.
P.S.
To my ex — “Leaving me… was the best thing that has ever happened to me.”
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Previously published on “Hello, Love”, a Medium publication.
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Photo credit: Doesn’t matter where this was taken, all I know is that I was genuinely happy again. — Post Photo Courtesy of Author