Sometimes you just get lost all over again.
Why didnt any of you guys tell me?
My friends were used to my dramatics by then.
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But this time, one of them gave me a look like I was absolutely crazy.
Who told you that?
When I told him the story, he just shook his head.
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You just always look… lost, I guess.
But, well, he wasnt wrong.
Seriously, Im not kidding.
After my first huge heartbreak, I pulled anEat Pray Loveand went to study in Italy for a summer.
I ate great food and kindled whimsy romances and saw some of the most beautiful sites in the world.
I liked to believe I came home new.
Id like to think this is an example of life imitating art.
Has it changed me?
Yeah, sure, of course you cant go through a huge life event unscathed.
But has it fixed me?
We love the idea that we have this specific purpose on Earth and we just have to find it.
It makes feeling lost so much less scary because we know theres a way to overcome it.
Sometimes you just get lost all over again.
Im 23 and I still dont know what Im doing.
But doesnt everything seem prettier from far away?
Maybe thats all any of us really are.
Maybe we just forget about all the other little things in between they seem so insignificant in comparison.
But you know what?
The more comfortable I become with that, the less afraid I am of the great unknown.
Maybe being lost isnt as bad as Ive always made it out to be.
