A New Perspective

This morning has been one of those days, while in the midst of doing a fiscal report I found that my brain was disconnecting and I was blindly trying to solve a financial error. Now, I don't know how many of you are in the business world but trying to solve anything finance related when your mind isn't on point is like trying to hit a free throw in basketball with your hands tied behind your back. . .it just doesn't work. So as I sat looking at the same numbers over and over and trying to figure out where the error occured it occured to me that I needed to step away from the numbers and get a change of perspective. I stopped looking at my reports and started looking at quotes (something I do whenever I need a change in my perspective) and I found this quote:

"Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather make me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one come along."

Now, most days I would have passed over this but today it stopped me. It struck me how something so simply put could ring so true in my life. I don't let a lot of people in my heart so when you finally get past all of trust issues, fear of rejection, commitment issues, and common sense, you stay in my heart forever. Not many get past the huge wall I have built around myself. . .I think in my life there have only been 3 guys who have successfully seen me without any barriers. You may ask what this has to do the quote well in every 'real' and meaningful relationship I have ever been in I have tried so hard to hold on to it. Another one of my favorite quotes is: 'Sometimes we hang on when we should just let go'. It has taken me a lot of time to let go of these men. I think I have finally gotten to the point where i have forgotten what it was to be ' so and so's girlfriend' and all the feeling associated with that. And how does this quote apply? Because it is true, 100% true. Losing them didn't make me cynical it truly did make me realize how great it will be to hold on to the RIGHT man instead of clinging to the wrong one.