Food for Thought

If you break through the chains binding you to your past...

Are you brave for walking forward renewed?

Or a coward for leaving everything you were behind?

What does it mean to be an ‘adult’?

To walk past that line of adolescence

And metamorphosize into an insect of this buzzing community

Of course you have to change

Even a little, for better or worse

But is it cowardice to forget the kid that got you there to begin with?

Is it easier to scoff at their mistakes

Their gentle naivete

To put them in a corner with imaginary friends and misconceptions

And swear to never turn around

But does that take strength?

Or are you just playing along to the masquerade?

Is it harder to get people to see the ‘new you’

Or for you to still be stitched to that sobbing welp?

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So…

If you do break those chains in their entirety…

Did you regret it?