Departing

It is well known that he who returns never left. 
It is so hard to leave until you leave and then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. 
You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind. 
Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving.
 We leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids.
Mental and emotional stability is our ally, when we cross boarders for a reason. 
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence. 
Don’t confuse the darkness that’s leaving with the light that’s coming in. 
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
Memories follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist,  people go away to return, brightened for the passage of departing.
Depart and Arrive a brand new you. 

By:  Jay Carreon