The Pains of Starting Over

You've lived your life so many years
Laughed, cried, won and lost
Sometimes life was amazing
And other times it just beat you down
No matter what life threw at you,
You always made it out stronger.

So what do you do when you find,
That all the hard work you've put into it,
Just wasn't the way to do things at all?
When you find out that you life,
May not be turning out the way you wanted
Even though all those years ago,
It was perfect...

How do you rewrite your life;
Break it down into tiny moments,
And try to see what happened a long the line,
To make it so hard?
How do you start over
When you've worked all your life
To reach this moment?

Will it be easy,
Or will it just be another opportunity
For life to beat you down?
Will all the friends you've made
Still be with you when you decide,
"Maybe it's time for something new...something better"?

Starting over isn't easy,
No one said it would be,
But then again, no one ever warned that it would be difficult
You don't have to rewrite you entire life,
Just look back on past experiences,
Reflect on your actions,
And learn from them.

Our past isn't there to haunt us
For things that we did,
It is there for us to grow, learn,
And eventually say,
"Wow, I've lived an amazing life"

Starting over is painful, but starting over for yourself and no one else, is worth it in the end.