Things can change, friends can leave, and this life it doesn't stop for anybody.

I've finally re-started my journey. I was stalled for awhile on the side of the road. It was like I feel asleep in January and woke up in March. I was not here at all mentally, but I'm back and in full force, thanks to my family and close friends.

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

— ~ Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)