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Don’t let yourself be defined by the almosts of life. 

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My mind has become a storage unit of every memory of us, each file labeled starting from the first day I met you to the day I lost you.

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What if the what ifs you stress about end up being what ifs that work out for your good?

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How sure am I that I needed these to be real? That I wanted to change what happened in the past? 

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I should’ve said yes. 

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But, in the space between ‘what if’ and ‘what is’ there lies a ‘maybe’ a ‘just might’ and a ‘what could be’. There lies possibility, and that’s where the leap lives. That’s where chance hatches – in the risk, a hunch of intuition leading to decision, a spark of opportunity to be brave in the face of change.

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I regret not having loftier aspirations. I downsized my dreams to fit the life we were building, planning for children, pets, and more.

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Because love must always be sure and certain.

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And then one day, one moment, it was all gone. The hopes, the possibilities, the lovely moments that the future had in store for the two of you have washed away as if they had never existed.

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You deserve someone who makes you feel special, every day, consistently. You deserve a person whose happiness is to keep that smile on your face.