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Pristine Beginnings

If I have learned anything this year, I will never be ready for what life throws.

I will never be adequately prepared.

I won’t have the right words when it counts for something.

I won’t know the correct answer when fate is staring me down.

I’ve learned I can go on waiting for something, sustained by hope and nothing more, or I can put it to one side and shrug my shoulders.

Bravely accept that I can’t keep my heart safe any more than I can stop love from taking everything from me.

I have learned to stop saying yes when I don’t mean it- to live as authentically as I know how.

To allow the tips of my fingers to skirt the darkness, as long as I remember, to keep my eyes fixed on the light.

And as one door opens and another closes, I will move forward knowing that, unlike so many others, I have another year ahead of me- another shot at making it around the sun and a chance to get it right this time.

This time, I have it all@peacewriter51