For a long time, I was friends with silence.

But then it became the thing I feared the most.

I was scared of all the hidden skeletons that were slowly coming out.

My mind became home to mermaids and dragons.

And that made everything okay.

I was happy with the familiarity

Instead of running in circles,

Trying to figure out the cacophony of emotions ringing in my head,

Trying to find a higher mountain,

Hearing whispers telling me I was meant for something more.

But little did I know, things were rearranging themselves for me.

I had been crying my eyes out while a new path was being forged for me.

It wasn’t the beginning of the end, it was the the beginning of something good.

- Rania G. | stepping stones