When I was not yet 18, I moved over 2100 km (or 1300 miles) away from home. I never moved back. I left behind everyone I knew and all of my family to pursue a new life.
For someone who had grown up in a very close-knit environment it was quite a feat. Sometimes the naiveté of youth is a good thing. All of that not knowing what you don’t know can have it’s advantages. The hardest part for me was being away from my family: my mother and my sisters particularly. I was on an adventure but a part of me was with them. As the years passed I learned that being close does not have to be being right next to someone. Closeness is a feeling. It is a choice to keep that person or those people in our thoughts and our hearts. We keep the love for them alive. It has nothing to do with proximity.
Years later when many loved ones had passed away I realized it would be true there too. The ones we love are energy and light. That light only goes out when we let it. Even in my solitude I know all the people I love are right here with me. I make it so. (I think I may have just quote captain Picard with that last comment)
Namaste!
Bianca
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