Ten Years Ago

Though, my childhood teetered on the cliff of divorce and separation, I was completely unaware and innocent.

If you had told me our vacation would turn into a 3 ½ year stay in one state, and a 6 ½ stay in another, thousands of miles away from my home, and I still wouldn't be back in ten years, I would have stared at you for a long time, blink, and just like that, I wouldn't believe you.

And yet, here I am.

Ten years is a long time when you are young.

If I found a magical genie who granted me three wishes, you would not find me wishing for things to have been different with my parents, or my friends from back then. I have learned to be grateful for what the Lord has deemed me worthy of.

Through suffering comes peace, through sorrow comes joy. If there is no rain, there is no rainbow and every cloud has a silver lining.

My childhood fell down the cliff with quite a few bumps along the way. With the end of my childhood comes the dangerous climb of college, jobs, and young adulthood.

May God continue guiding my path to the next ten years, and the next, and the next…