There comes a time in life when you’re faced with a huge, potentially life-altering choice that you must make.  You hem and haw about it, you analyze it, you may even write down the pros and cons of each option.  You almost dread the choice, because you know once your mind is made up, there is no turning back.  You leave behind what you leave behind.  For good.

All of my life, I’ve chosen operate in the background, pushing others forward, letting other people shine.  The shadows became my comfort zone.  They kept me hidden from the world and I was fine with that, for the most part.  I have also known that there is a light inside of me, that is powerful, beautiful, and dying to be set free.  I have let pieces of it out before.  I know what it can do, and sometimes, I am afraid of it. It’s a light powerful enough to change the world, if I let it shine the way that it wants to.

There is a wonderful woman in my life.  She is the one that I have been waiting to love my whole life.  She’s known me for years, and sees things in me that I often write off or am blind to.  She loves me enough to tell me what she sees and what she sees in me.  She sees my light.  She feels it, but she also feels my darkness, the places I dwell in the shadows.  I love her and I love myself enough to know that it’s time to come out of the darkness.  The shadows no longer serve me.  They only hinder me and prevent me from living the best life that I could be.  It was a safe place for me, but now it is not.

I think it’s time for me to embrace the light that lives in me fully.  It’s time to let it out and shine bright.  It’s not my fault that others will be blinded.  It’s not my problem if others can’t handle the brightness of it.  It’s only my job to shine and let the world know who I am and why I am here.

Hold on to your hats and get your shades out world.  A new light is about to pierce the sky.