One Year

A little over a year ago I pursued something that was uncertain. Something that was new- in many ways. 

It changed my entire life. It was, as my mother said, "crossing a bridge that could never be uncrossed". There was no other path that I could imagine.

It was not as easy as the word falling might imply. There were many unintended hurts that came just like a fall. Bruises that are still fading.

Every single day, though, it is not the pains of minor characters that I think of.

It is the joy. The happiness of loving someone who has literally made me so much better than I ever was.

I have spent the last year discovering what it means to truly love someone. Even though 1,901 miles currently seperate us there is no other place I would call home like her heart.

I love you, Meredith.