"Sharks and fish can be friends" from Finding Nemo

[TRUSTING]

It is hard to let go of the "what if's" and the "what it could have been", but you have to or you just rot from the inside out.

You have to get to the point where you realize that you are deserving of a better life, love, and journey.

We are all responsible for our own journey.

I just recently celebrated getting off all the antidepressants, xanex, sleep aids, etc.... that helped me through this journey. It has been 5 years. I will never go back to that.

I have to feel every emotion now, and I do. There is no longer numbness and I relish it. The pain is there, but it is pain that I have learned to cope with and live with. Pain that is processed and has made me strong, alive and whole again.

That is not the Mid-lifer's case......... despite what you see they are miserable, despite what they say, they are miserable, despite what they do, they are miserable.

There is some satisfaction in that, but a lot of empathy, because as standers, we know pain.

There gets a point where you can actually acknowledge that you are on the other side of it all. You made it.... The pain did not kill you, you did not kill yourself, and there is now nothing you cannot deal with. It is a wonderful part of the process.