I keep getting asked what it is that I want to do when I get back from my Deployment to Afghanistan and I haven’t been able to properly answer that until right now, and it’s just one simple word, “move”. We all need to grow, evolve, even if that means you need to leave everything behind. Most times all these things that you are leaving behind must be left exactly there, BEHIND, they will do nothing but remind of who you were and you need to accept that you are no longer that person. The first step to moving along is accepting the wrongs you have commited against others, especially the ones that you took for granted knowing they would do anything for you. You may start to wonder, is this the time to seek redemption? Try to right a few wrongs? But you know the answer to that to that already, it’s NO. Most times things need to be left just where they are. Accept that you are not perfect, that you have made mistakes, that you have been mean, cold, heartless even; but don’t let these imperfections bring you down. Use them, let them fuel your will to never commit these mistakes again, consider them scars that you will wear proudly in homage to yourself, to your ability to accept the things that once were but no longer are….

Written by: Del Rivers