Day 331 "Packed Away And Never Forgotten"

Not everything is as easy as packing up your personal possessions and placing them into a crudely labeled box, and then moving that box from point A to point B.

Emotions, history, and dreams do not stay placed away for very long, and they never pack away neatly either.

These things have a way of escaping the confines of our minds, and of our hearts. They demand to always be seen, and not placed away for better days. These histories and emotions demand to be heard above all else, and their silence is only ever temporary.

As much as we try to hide away from the darkness, or to forget the history that brought us to this moment, we simply cannot escape the reality and the knowledge of what it took for us to get here, and even packing these things away neatly in a box doesn’t ever stay neatly hidden away.

Every smile we have today has come at a cost, and the knowledge of what we had to overcome to be free for this long, is not without future payment.

One cannot move an emotion without giving an emotion.

One cannot pack away a heart without feeling the pain of the temporary separation.

The doubts that we carry with us, and all the ones that we ever try to pack away and forget about, all these doubts only ever place themselves in a box meant to be opened in the future.

As our lives change, our worlds shift and our hearts move, we all try to pack these important things up, but like so many things, they know that they are meant to seen by us somewhere in the future.

As we try to burn an old life away in the desire to create a new one, we only ever hold off the day that waits somewhere in the future, and in that new place.

As we try to keep ourselves from opening this box that we cannot let go, we end up holding off the moment where we accept that all of our homes will be built with the memories we tried to hide away.

eventually we will not feel the need to pack all these things away, we won’t feel the need to hesitate unboxing them, and we will finally accept that we will always end up bringing them with us.