My Wild Island Thoughts

My Wild Island Thoughts


A Mosaic of Starlight

October 22, 2021
My story is beautiful and tragic, and piece by piece I’ve chosen to put myself back together in a mosaic of starlight, glittering through all the cracks. 

I left my life to find myself.



I walked away from a marriage empty and broken. I was a mosaic of hurt and desperation, shattered on the inside and taped together on the outside. I left with my life in a black garbage bag. And I cried tears of heartache, failure, tragedy and relief as I slept that first night on my black garbage bag pillow. I was taught to love others before myself, that love was conditional, granted, given and taken away. And so I gave and gave until I was empty and broken.



And then I walked away. My power to love myself had been stripped away from me. My self-love was conditional, granted, given and taken away. And as I learned to love again, my love for myself kept crumbling until I shattered. 



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