I’m wondering what that poor animal did to get shot in the paw like that.
Daily Archives: January 15th, 2012
I got my final divorce papers in the mail this week. I’m not really sure how to feel about that. Looking over the documents I wanted to cry and vomit and let out a sigh of relief all at the same time. It is a very sad thing and it forces me to deal with the most embarrassing experience in my entire life. However, it’s also a symbol of an unwritten future ahead of me and a reminder of what I learned on the way to who I am now.
I have an opportunity to officially leave everything in the past. I am halfway around the world from my ex and I don’t have any more reason to be in contact with her. Maybe under different circumstances we could’ve stayed really good friends, but it’s simply not logistically viable. I don’t think either of us are particularly hurt by that now. We’ve wished each other well and have gone down our separate paths, both hoping the other finds happiness in wherever that path may lead.
I’m sure some old memories will surface from time to time, but those connections are finally severed completely. These documents force me to look at my past one last time, but they also force me to leave that past behind and move forward. I don’t know what the future will bring, and I’m okay with that. Maybe I can stop beating myself up on a blog for all the world to see and start writing about being an expat or an immigrant.
Stopping to acknowledge that one journey has come to and end, I realize that I’ve already begun a new journey and am excited to find out where this one will take me.
I’m convinced that there is an invisible top floor on this building. Why else would it look like the staircase goes one floor too high?
jknitt
