Rethinking Things

Since I got back home from a recent trip to Colorado I've been rethinking some important things in my life.  While I was there I had a relationship go south in a pretty major way.  Where I once thought I was on solid ground it turns out I may just have been on quicksand the whole time.  Now, it's given me time to pause and reflect on some things that were said.  In consideration of this I am moving on from a strained, painful past.  It's time for me to put down the ugly bag of garbage that I still seem to want to carry.  I've tried, in my own way, to move on.  Seems when I least expect it something can happen and all those old feelings come back to the surface.  Time to let it go.  I realize now that some people will never change, including me it seems, and some people will carry the water of other people.  There's no sugar coating this fact.  My grandfather used to say "spots on a leopard don't change."  While I can't change completely I can lessen the spots until they fade.  Maybe if I set down the bag I can move past it and be able to survive intact when people want to drag me into conversations that are better left alone.  It's time...past time for me to let this go.  Enough already...