Never too late....

Remember that one friend that you thought you would never loose but do?  Beth was mine.  BFF's from junior high through high school.  We made BIG plans for after we graduated high school.  We were going to move to New York City and make it big!  Well that was the plan anyways and then he happened.  I have no desire to talk about who he was.  If you were with me then, then you will remember who he was.  We (me and her) let his words and actions tear our friendship apart and after graduation, I stayed and she left.

Fast forward 12 years later and she takes the opportunity to find me.  It's the best feeling in the world for someone you once loved and adored to find you once more.  After tears, hugs and lots of catching up, she throws out this, "Your life is nothing like I pictured it would be."  I was taken back and asked her to elaborate, and she did.

OUCH!  She said it ever so loving but she said it in such a way that I knew that she knew there was so much more I should be doing with myself.  Here is the girl that knew me as well as I knew myself and she was the only one between us that loved me enough to not lie to me.  Like I had been lying to myself for years.  I decided then and there to love myself again and be who I was meant to be. I knew it was time to stop hiding.  So a new journey began......

Here we are three years later and I have managed to make drastic changes.  Changes that are moving me in the direction that I wanted to travel all those years ago.  No I am not moving to New York but the dreams I once had let go of are rising back up in me and I know that I have every opportunity to make them happen, even though I am starting 15 years late  later.

The path is harder now than it could have been if I had traveled it back then.  However, this journey is worth the sacrifice and I am excited for what is to come.  The future is not yet set in stone but I am living with no regrets, wish-I-hads, could-have-beens, should-have-dones, etc.......

If you can relate.  Re-evaluate, re-affirm and re-enlist back into your own life!  Because.............

     "It is never too late to be what you might                    have been." - George Eliot