no need for forgiveness

To be so reckless with a heart, break the most sacred of trusts, and hurt in ways I had no right to, in ways that were downright malicious... will be a shame I carry with me, and it's only right that I do. But I can't let it seal my fate, especially a fate I hope to share.

And the voices ring out in unison, "Leave the past where it belongs, behind you."

Indeed, that odyssey is over.

I have never been one to easily compartmentalize the past; I'm more like a game of snake, the whole of "me" growing longer and longer as I move through the obstacles before me. Look back... and I can see the expanse of my life, but when my own little acts of torture, reliving the past, have casualties beyond myself, things have to change.

Justin | 12:08 PM