Reflectivesurfaces's Blog

    My new favourite band, Shinedown, has this song about goodbyes being a good thing.  It could be a second chance.  I love that song.  I really do.  But is it true that goodbye can sometimes be a second chance?  What?  A second chance to make the same mistake?  Cause that is the truth.  Usually if you can make it all the way to saying goodbye to something or someone, you shouldn’t go backwards.  Onward and upwards, they say.

I tried the whole saying goodbye to a lifestyle and to be honest, I just got kneecapped in the end.  I had no other options that when the “same old thing” came back around into my life ( and life is all about a big circle), I had to return.  A second chance! you might exclaim.  Yeah.  Great.  But it was no hell on the first time around.  I didn’t come out better for the whole experience.  Well, maybe some of that all important life experience thing, but overall, it sucked.  I was behind financially, emotionally, and professionally, way, way below the radar.  It sucked.  And I was so proud of myself for making the break and saying goodbye the first time.  Shinedown was just about all I played.  Silly.  Just plain silly.

Nope, goodbye should be just that.  Goodbye.  And then burn the fucking bridge behind you.  Not that anyone should follow you across.  Just so you don’t wimp out and turn around!

Nuff said.