Write on Wednesday: I Remember ...

For the Christmas Season, WoW is having an open link, meaning I might have time to catch up on some of the past prompts that I have missed!  I randomly starting with this one because it caught my eye.  I din't even think of what I was going to write ... it just started flowing almost faster than I could type it out.

Write On Wednesdays Exercise 3 - I remember: Write "I remember" at the top of your page. Set a timer for 5 minutes. Use "I remember" as your prompt and write down the first words that come into your head for 5 minutes. Stop when the buzzer rings! Do this exercise over and over if you wish. I will try to do it every morning this week. I'll let you know how I go...I am hoping that the thought of having to tell you all about my progress will be the motivation I need to keep at it!

I remember … only bits and pieces of my former life now.  It has not been so long since I have lived in it, just over a year, and yet it seems like forever ago.  For months I held on so tightly that I thought I was going to snap.  I refused to let go, to be fully ripped from a life I loved and thrown into one I had long ago out grown.  As time passed though it got harder and harder to hold on to the life I loved.  My grip was slipping as days turned into weeks, weeks into months, and now months into a year.  I often wonder where I would have ended up in that life, the life I loved, the life I had planned down to every detail. 

This was definitely therapeutic ... may have to expand on it in the future.  Expressing your feelings so openly takes gumption!