Looking Back One Year: Darkness Before Light

I have heard many stories of people who remember the darkest moments before light emerged in their[image error] lives. They didn't know that light was around the corner, often feeling so beaten down that they let it go only because they felt like they had no other option. But after light emerges, they find that the moments of darkest aren't remembered the same way as when they traveled them.

As the calendar turns to August 1, I reminded of exactly what my life was like one year one ago.

There were some bad dates and some people giving me bad dating advice. Never having been one to date a lot, but being one who always has had many male friends, one person who didn't know me very well told me to date pretty much any man I came in contact with, even those whom I knew there was no future.