For an Old Dear Friend

If I have known then what I know now, would it have changed the course of my life?

I am bound to believe it will not. We are what we choose to become. I will not let anyone, much less an aspiring psychology professor, define what I am based on a number I can't make sense of.

We choose the paths we take. I choose who to love and how I will love : unconditionally.

I have been burned too much when I made the mistake of giving a promise of conditional love. I know that that is not how I want to live. I don't want to live on compromises. And I know you don't want to, either.

"When I am thirty and I am not yet with anyone else. Only then." Do you remember that? I would have kept my promise if you held me to it.

But sometimes, life has a way of letting us see beyond what we care to look at. You have made your choice. I made mine.

And I am extremely happy with what I chose. I hope you are with yours, too.