(Needed. This. Today)

“Today I am packing up my life and feeling like the the past 5 years have been boyfriend to boyfriend, apartment to apartment. In this next chapter, I will have to settle in my own space. My.very.own.space. I haven’t had my own space since 2005. The concept of living alone terrifies me, and the concept that I might never find love…even more so.

But as I sit here reading White Elephant in the Room, as I often do when I need a reality check, I am confronted by the fact that in some way we’re all lucky. We can all find good in the bad and though it hurts to smile…we can. 

So it is through you that I find inspiration today. To pack up. To feel OK about this, and to know that no matter what…I’ve got this. Thank you!” — Samantha, Charleston, SC