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Cancer: You not only have a soft heart, but you have an excellent memory.

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I’m not your victim. I’m not the result of your mistakes.

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We hold on when we know we shouldn’t. We cling to the past. We cling to memories long gone. Smiles that have left. Reasons that don’t actually make sense.

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2019, you provided various challenges along the way. You tested my strength. You proved that life can change at any moment. You showed me it’s okay to take my own path.

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My heart remembers all of the good, but chooses to forget all of the bad.

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Sitting with trauma, looking at it, making seeing every part of it a priority and not running away from any part of it is a process.

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Take time for yourself to decompress and reflect on everything going on in your life. A lot of the time we get so caught up in everything that we sweep everything under the rug until it resurfaces again.

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For years after this adventure ended, I chased after the magic I found in Seoul, hoping to find it again in the face of the many people I met in the many trips I took without any success. It was gone.

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It is not your job to prove yourself.

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I am slowly learning how to come to terms with change. How to face the unknown with courage and grace, instead of fear.