*The following piece was originally released April 30, 2015.
YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO LIVE ON THE BRIDGE
Blogging Univ. Writing 101 Day 19
SO darn grateful for a free writing assignment today! I get to write whatever comes to mind, say what I want, say what I feel & how I feel it. The only rules are there are no rules…including my being obsessed with grammar or punctuation.
DOPENESS.
I’m always changing my Twitter profile picture. I bore very easily. It’s a wonder I’ve maintained some things as long as I have. Perhaps it’s my being what they call a ride or die chick, a loyalist or I don’t know….someone you definitely want in your corner. When I rock wit’ ‘chu, I rock hard from the core. I don’t have the energy to rock more than one face so you never have to wonder. If I said it I meant it. And you didn’t have to hear it second hand either.
So what’s the flip side of being ride or die? For those of us who take “enduring hardness as a good soldier” seriously. For those of us who are used to just sticking it out; no matter the toll it takes on us. From apologizing to strangers about falling behind on Writing 101 assignments to staying in places we shoulda left a long time ago. For us; committing to something comes from a deeper place. It’s why we end up staying with people and doing things…waaaay past the expiration date. You know…that moment when you forget why you even started riding and why you allowed so much of you to die along the way.
We were never meant to live on the bridge.
A bridge is defined by Dictionary.com as “a connecting, transitional route or phase between two adjacent activities or conditions“.
Just as old habits die hard and addictions are relentless in refusing to let us go, we too have things in our lives that we know we should’ve ended a long time ago. How many nouns; people, places or things, were meant to only be temporary in our lives but we refused to let go?
Nouns that were meant to just “hold you over” until you can climb over? It was a donut but you treated it like a permanent tire. It was meant to be urgent care not chronic care. The Emergency Rooms of life are not meant to fill in the gaps. That relationship was designed to revive you not sustain you…and you know it. So why are you settling? Why DON’T you deserve better than that? Why can’t it be your turn?
Why not you?! Shoooot why not me?!
My disclaimer is I’m not telling you to quit your job today. I’m not telling you to serve your spouse with divorce papers or move across country. ‘Cause wherever you go…there will there you will be. Everyone can’t be wrong, it just might be you. It makes no sense to have to take the same life test all over again in another location. Maybe…just maybe, some things are reoccurring because you just need to deal with it.
You were never meant to live on the bridge.
YOU know where you are and YOU know if you stayed too long…
Peace,
e
++To read the original “
un-tweaked” piece click
here.
Blessings!
e
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