Today I visited someone I haven’t seen in years. An old mentor, no pun intended.
I see now , my life changed, the branch in the road, and the freedom I have claimed.
In ten years she has spun into a dance with her antithesis, her nemesis in flesh. A woman in opposition to all my old mentor holds dear.
The conflict has taken root in old losses, or so I believe, and it has flourished. It nourishes in bitter twists of familiarity. It is embraced for its definition of boundaries, its comfort in the emptiness.
It has become a core piece of her world, a focal point to be shared, the story of life to be told.
Is bitter comfort, not yet still comforting? Does it matter what sees us through the night?
I believe it does. Yet that belief is in degrees, to the best that we each can attain. Always we can reach for more (and sometimes we need to sit on our heels and *reflect*). We can be more, for always we are becoming. Or we can settle into a pattern of predictability and certainty, an old pair of uncomfortable shoes that we have adjusted to as much as they adjust to us.
I am happier for the road I have taken.
Barefoot and dancing. Sharp stones scrape my heels, my toes dug into soft earth. Living.
