blessing in disguise
has this happened to you?
when my ex and i split, i said some pretty horrible things. i vowed to never speak to her again. i went off and did my healing (are we ever done with our healing?) i wrote songs and gradually, the searing pain began to fade into a dull mistrust of and slight animosity for members of the opposite sex. no, i didn’t go for guys or anything. i just stopped opening myself up to the world. memories began to fade after a while and i started to forget the past.
then one day, the album comes out. she hears it. we have been talking a bit back and forth. and i guess today’s life lesson is: someone who you spend a couple of years of your life with is an invaluable resource on the topic of YOU. we just had a conversation, the details of which are a bit too personal to post here, that really helped make some sense out of the last year of my life. it could have far reaching implications for me, if i let it 
so, you get all that?
your ex is the “you encyclopedia”
later
-r
