Friends

Grace

—3 Months Later…

It’s not easy leaving your country to settle in some foreign place. That’s what most people say.

But I will say that I am having the best time of my life. I go to sleep every night with the plans for the next day in my mind and wake up ready to do my best.

This feels different than going to sleep crying or wondering about the people in my life and waking up to think about what scheme I might encounter.

I no longer move in the same circle, always finding myself in the same spot. I have left that circle altogether.

Although, once in a while, I think about the past, about my loss. But it doesn’t freeze me. I am beginning to accept this new life because I know I will never return to the past again. The change of place has done me good.

“ What do you want? ” Celine asks in her all-time chiming voice.

“ The usual. ” I shrug, glancing out of the window in the cafe.

It’s raining. The weather is starting to become cold. And after a long time, I feel myself just focus