Crossroads

           Ahh.  My life.  26 years, 8 months, and 24 days.  In this time there have been many many smiles. There have been many laughs and there have been many tears. There have been some unforgettable moments. Ones that i would like to forget but i know will stay with me until the day i die.  Many friends have come and gone leaving something with me every time and there have been ones that have been there for every single second that passed.  So many talks about life, love and how to get through it all. talks about tv shows, moments in history that define who we are and what we will be.  Talks about music that touches our soul and changes us forever.  There are thousands of talks, laughs, and moments that i am sure i have forgotten and wish i could remember them all.  In my life there has been love. Love that runs deep and love that hurts. Love from those unexpected and love that never could be returned.  There have been decisions made that I wish i could undo.  There have been choices that i knew without a doubt were the right ones and there were some that i had to take a minute to think over.  Over these years i have grown physically, mentally, and emotionally. I have had to deal with things head on and sometimes pushed away things that seemed impossible to deal with at all.


              Ten years,  7 months, and 26 days ago something happened in my life that changed everything about me.  Changed who i was, how i thought, and how i lived.  I changed how i loved, how i looked at people, and how i valued things.  Now if you had asked me then i would have said that it was the worst thing to happen in my life.  As far as i knew my life had ended.  Little did i know that it had just begun.  I had no idea that i was about to go down a road that would bring me closer to death than i could possibly imagine, that i would really feel like what it was to feel yourself dying.  Feel your breath slowly be taken away from you and there was nothing you could do but lay on the floor and let it. Many times i have found myself in this position. I have felt my heart hurt and beat to a race that i thought was going to kill me.  I traveled down this road thinking i had a choice. Thinking that what i was doing  to myself was my own fault. Not taking medicine was my own issue that if i could just get over i could save my own life.  Now i know that my life had already been saved. Laying on my floor thinking that my life was gonna end or laying in a hospital bed barely hanging on was never god saving me. He had already done it. Every time i thought i had run out of time and every time i found myself praying over and over to just give me one more day to make it right, there was a voice inside me saying, "get up erin. get up. it's not over for you. this is not what i wanted for you. you have so much more to do. you have so much more to give."  I got up time and time again. i got up with just enough strength, just enough time to call someone for help.  i got up with a will that i never knew i had and often times i forget that i have.  I got up because this life, my life is meant to do something amazing. Ten years ago i was given a gift that has taken me down such a bittersweet path. A path filled with hurt, tears, pain, love, laughter, strength, knowledge, and courage to do what i know i was meant to do. What i was meant to be.

              Right now i start another path. Today i hit a crossroads that is turning me onto another road. I have gone through the first leg of my journey and now it is time to make things happen. Now it is time to take the past ten years and use them to follow this next path.  Use what i have learned, what i have gained, and what i have lost to change a view someone has, to change the way a heart beats, or to change the seemingly impossible.

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