You start in the not knowing.

You start in the tears.

Hope is slowly making yourself vulnerable again.

It is stepping out, and showing up, and still choosing to live when you’ve really no idea of what the future might bring.

When you’re still very afraid of what the future might bring.

Because the future is opaque. And none of us can know for sure. And none of us can look into a crystal ball.

So you go on – for you have to.

Not because you’re brave or strong. And not because you want to, or you really have much hope.

You go on – for you have to.

It’s a simple as that.

Because you want to survive, so that means you have no choice.

But by choosing to go on you light a candle in the night.

And as you keep showing up, you find you slowly…