Through Every Circumstance, I Will Succeed

With everyday that passes, I become more and more consumed with my future and the paths I am choosing to walk down. I have been on the same road for four years now, and now my life is taking a new direction. I look around me, I remember all my mistakes, all my accomplishments, the great amount of friendships, all of my dreams that have come true, and the new dreams that are still yet to come to pass. With regret, I look at my failed relationships. I take a step back, and sigh with frustration at my decisions of late. Relationship=FAILURE. It was not by choice, the start of it, that is. This relationship was a friendship that involved confusion, wrong choices, supposed ideas, trust issues, mentally and emotionally straining, borderline tragedy, sometimes such a beautiful connection, amazing moments but with the wrong person. So now I am left with hundreds of I-told-you-so's, and the most frustrating sense of under-accomplishment ever known. Instead of investing my time and money on something that will be steadfast, I had to place all of my investments in something that was never there from the beginning.

Through all of this, I have learned... learned life lessons that I did not necessarily care to learn. I discovered that you can love someone and realize that you don't even understand the true meaning of love. I became aware that people can warn you, can prophesy to you, and yet you can still fall for the same mistakes. But through every circumstance that comes my way, through every obstacle, and past every fall off the pedestal, I WILL SUCCEED! I will accomplish all that I dream of; I am the person that I once was, the strong, independent woman full of dreams and expectations. No one can take my dreams from me; there is not one person who can bring my opinion down of myself to the point that I do not remember who I have become. Past all criticism, through each undue comment, I remain steadfast. Steadfast in being exactly who I have created myself to be. What is one of the most important lessons I have learned...? Through every circumstance, I will succeed...