-A Farewell Love Letter-

To a lost friend. The friend of course is the 'was' me.

Dear Was,
I won't be able to hang with you anymore.  I have changed and am no longer the person you once knew.  It wasn't any one big objectionable thing you did to me that changed our relationship.  It was the accumulation of a life long train of baggage we shared. Some good, some bad, but most of it was in the middle ground where there was not much Zing.  We went through life doing what was expected of us and staying out of the lime light. We thought we needed to stay in the background for protection, for comfort.  Commitment was a stranger to us most of the time. Why commit when we could just slide through? 

My Spirit knew better and has led me into an area of enlightenment and encouragement.  Out of our dim and sometimes dark life and into the brilliant life-light of day.  This new light has killed off and rendered useless the old hooks that used to torment us.  You stay there as a completely neutered faint vapor of a past that I’m never going to return to and I'll fly to new places and scale new mountains of perpetual self improvement.  This is not going to an easy task and will bring me some pain here and there but I now have the GUTS to face the future and do mighty battle where it's needed.

So long dude.  We were certainly survivors and have weathered a long past but it's high time I grew up and blasted off into a new life full of Hope and Joy.  And I won't be seeing you again.

Good-Bye,

The Eternal 'IS' Me

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I titled this a "love letter" to the old self (maybe it should have been an "un-love letter") not because I still love the old me but because I want to use all the old painful knocks and life lessons as instructions and guidance into my future life.

You have any letters to write?


- Gary            “I am a Compassionate and Engaged Man.”