Colorado Love

I caught myself today thinking to myself, "I don't know if I could ever leave here." Living here has something that living in Chicago and KC didn't. I can leave my place every day and look out and see the mountains from home and from work. I can go out on the weekend, turn off my phone, and see beautiful things. I have a job that I really do love most of the time, even though it can be stressful. I work with some amazing people who really care about what they do.

In the month before I left Chicago, I would sometimes start crying so hard I would hyperventilate. I was terrified to leave the people I loved and the life I had made there. I became a different version of myself there and felt loved and accepted fully. I was so scared. Leaving a place you feel loved and accepted is scary because you can't know what new good things are waiting for you in the new place. All you know is that you are leaving a place you love and people you love.

And now here I am in a new place I already really do love. And never would've known it if I'd been to scared to try.