Some things were best left in the past, where their magic remained forever undisturbed by the passage of time and the changing of perspectives. –
Jun Po Dennis Kelly
We can’t go back.
As bad as we want to, it’s just not possible.
As an OCD sufferer, time doesn’t move the same for me. In fact, sometimes if I had my choice, it wouldn’t move at all.
Did you ever get a chance to reunite with someone you dated years before? Maybe it was for dinner, or drinks, or coffee.
Maybe it was an actual “date.”
At least to you.
Well, I had that opportunity and it was mostly disappointing. Not because of anything she did, but because of what I did.
You see, I had built her up in my mind as the perfect person. I also still pictured the young woman I had known when we were in our late teens. And by the time we met again in our late twenties, she had become someone else.
But of course she did.
She’d finished school, moved several times, had different jobs, made new friends, spent time traveling.
Dated people.
There was very little left of the person I knew. And nothing left of the time we had shared a decade before.
Because that time in our lives existed only in memories.
So, enjoy those memories. Hold them tightly. But remember, as your life moves on, so does everyone else’s.
And realize the people you are thinking of may not be thinking of you.
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