Join Me In A Goodbye

So here is the picture I spoke about in the previous post. This is the quintessential image of me or was until now. So this post is my invitation to anyone who wants to join me in bidding farewell to this little guy.

I'll start with a few words about him. He was a rotten little guy who emotionally vampirized anyone who showed him an ounce of love. Mind you what else was he going to do. He was the target of so much anger and fear but when all was said and done I don't know anyone who could have raised him properly. He was stubborn, passionate, perceptive, focused and full of questions no parent could have or would have been prepared for. Everything was sacred to him so you couldn't help but trample on the things he held dear. He loved everyone so how could you know you were overwhelming him when you didn't give him his space. It didn't take a village to raise this child. It took a whole world. No parent stood a chance.

What I like about him is that in all of the things he's done, he has inspired a lot of love even if he didn't see it himself. What I also like is that inspite of his rotten behaviour others have benefited. He was lucky in that no matter what he did there was always the opportunity for him and others to learn. I am always amazed by the stories from people who have told me how much they've learned from this little guy's antics. Even in his darkest days he brought light.

Now I'd like to thank everyone who helped me get to this day no matter how small the contribution may have seemed. I especially want to thank those who have had the power to inspire me to go past my stubborn and single minded focus and do the things I never would have believed useful or that I was too scared to do or more impressively make me go beyond my self-pity and do what needed to be done.

Now that this excercise in self-centeredness is done I want to explain that I've have come to a point in my life where I want all these things behind me. I no longer want my life to revolve around the fact that it started off unfortunately. I want to take my inner peace and press on into a promissing future:)

So thanks for reading and I invite comments good and bad about this post. I'm curious about what people think about this kind of thing.