Crossing Tinker's Knob

by Inglath Cooper

When we’re young, we think the chances are limitless. That if we make a wrong choice, we’ll always have another opportunity to fix it. But I know the truth of this now. The truth is that every decision counts. One leads to another and another and another until the chain is formed, the links forged and unbreakable. And maybe all of it would be bearable if the chain had been my burden alone all these years. If I had been the only one to suffer for my choices. This is the part that doesn’t seem fair. That the people I love should continue to pay for my wrongs. This is the part I would change, if only I could.

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grounded her, reminded her that sometimes a thread of the past could weave its way into the present.

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. – Author Unknown

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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. – Jean de La Fontaine

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus

Note

That real love doesn’t set boundaries or guard with jealousy those at which it is directed. Real love, whatever its origin, is to be shared. Welcomed. Valued.

the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run