What was lost and what was gained
It has been a tumultuous time for me over the past 3 years now. I have seen joy, pain, death, birth, growth, beginnings, and endings. As many of you know it has been a serious road of ups and downs. Choices I never thought I would make, sacrifices I never considered. It’s neither the time nor the place to go into a full accounting of my sins or the actions of others. It simply has no purpose. All one can control in this world is themselves. I have been through hell and back again over the last three years, with work, family, love, life, education, and myself. Granted a great deal of this is self-inflicted to a point, ‘The choices we make, dictate the life we lead. To thine own self be true’. I have found just how fragile we can be, and how sometimes even the strongest of us can be manipulated into wiping out that which makes us who we really are. I believed that I needed to do these things out of penance for my crimes. To atone for what I had done wrong. While there may be some