Leaving It All Behind

There’s gonna come a time in your life when you have to leave a lot, if not everything behind. There’s gonna be a time in my life where I’m going to leave this blog, my parents, my brother, my friends, everything I’ve known all behind. I was talking to my brother a couple of weeks ago, he recently got engaged and is getting married in October. He also recently bought a condo with his fiancé, so he’ll be moving out in a few months. We were talking and he’s just like yeah, in a few months I’ll be leaving everything behind. His room, some of his stuff, this house we’ve been in for so long, my parents and of course me. No more like home cooked meals, family dinners, or just going out for Timmies or bubble tea. He’s starting a new life, new chapter, new job, new environment, new everything. It made me think about my own life...where there’ll come a time where I’ll have to leave my parents, my house and possibly my neighborhood and my friends behind, to move on to something new, and you can’t do that without letting go of everything else. I never had a true experience of living on my own cuz I stayed at home for university, so it’s always weird to think about like moving out one day and living on my own and stuff. It’s crazy talking to friends who are living on their own and just hearing their thoughts...whether they like miss their family and such. One commonality is that you definitely have to make a concentrated effort to see your friends and such. Like you really have to make plans and set a plan because life just gets so busy. Think about it...working 5 days a week already consumes so much time, then there’s spending time with kids and your significant other, of course you gotta allot time for like cooking, errands and chores. It’s not that easy to just hit your friends or family up and be like hey whatchu doing lol. I guess seeing my brother getting married and about to move on really made me think a lot, for one that I’ll hardly ever see him unless I go downtown or he comes uptown. It really drove home the fact that there’ll come a time for me where I’ll also have to leave a lot of things behind. Especially if your family comes first, whether that means moving to a different city, town or even country you know. I know this seems kinda down lol, but don’t take for granted the time you spend with your family and friends, cuz once that time is gone, it’s gone. Who knows where life will take you or them, could be different paths or it could be similar paths. Some of you might be lucky enough to do life with your family and friends even after you have your own family, some of y’all might not lol. It’s a testament to growth and to becoming your own person, till next time peace out friends.