Key Experience: I didn’t know I could love as much as I do until I met my best friends.
For the first time in six years, I was three months clean of self harm– all because of one single summer spent with all of them. An achievement I thought would never happen– did. Because of our sleepovers, our little ice cream dates– a car ride with the window’s down. It’s those moments that made me realize life isn’t all that bad. Moments that made me feel so clear headed, my face hurt all the time from how much I was smiling. My chest felt light, fluttering like a hummingbird with all the love that filled my being. Like a flower growing from a crack in the concrete, I was healing.
My knees were scraped from how hard I would laugh to the point that I couldn’t keep myself upright. My voice was scratchy from how loud and often I was talking. My body was sore from the games we played, from wrestling in the ocean water to playing twister when none of us have played a game since we were in elementary school.
We were kids again. And I learned to live.
Key words:
- Love
- Light
- Growing
- Laughter
- Summer
- Comfort
- Warm
- Childhood
- Clean
- Healing