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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.

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It is the feeling of ‘what if’ if that phrase is a person. What if he likes me? What if he’ll text me today? What if that comment about my hair was more than a compliment?

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I believed in it enough for the both of us. You and me and our own rules, living so unlike everyone else because our love was different.

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What if? But what if a million things?

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I picture that sometimes we may wonder if we did the right thing by giving us a shot. We might second guess and think, “What if we had just let this go?”

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You are still the one person I would let back in if you decided I was the one you wanted. Easily.