Saturday, November 7, 2009

Journey Through Love Gone Awry...A 12-Step Program


Step 1:  Shock and disbelief.  The total inability to accept we are no more...

Step 2:  Sorrow, sadness, endless tears, desperately attempting to change it all, go back to the past....somehow making all the bad go away, pretend it didn't end up the way it did.  Step 2 goes for an eternity, months...

Step 3:  Awareness, accepting the finality... that the end has come, followed months later by...

Step 4:  Letting go of the thoughts, finding ways to avoid unnecessary tears and conversations with you...

Step 5:  Move into a new home, away from memories, unwilling yet to relinquish the old place, simply avoid going there, rent is paid ahead...while still adding a piece of your artwork to the new home, I justify it by claiming it goes with the overall decor of the room...

Step 6:  Several weeks later,  visit my other home, check on the rent...place looks so barren, almost forelorn...a feeling of remorse, shake it off, girl...

Step 7:  Remove and your new girl from my ava HUD, remodel room in new home, decide the art is no longer right, remove it, and it is okay...

Step 8:  Get involved with my new life, new friends, integrate into the new sim "family," an ongoing process steps 2-8...

Step 9:  Back to the other home, one week left for rent...ponder this and leave with mixed feelings...

Step 10:  Make decision not to renew rent on other home, remove all items, which are few...make mental note to IM landlord, a good friend, when she is is on...more remorse...

Step 11:  Get auto notice rent has expired...oops!...Immediately send IM to landlord, send my sincere regrets...she is understanding as always, knows the situation....

Step 12:  Inventory cleanup, search everything with your name attached, move all of you into a neat little folder...

It is finally final...I have completed the program.
 
By Shellie Sands

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