Sometimes, life presents challenges.  Endings are difficult and challenging, but then you realize that all of it has actually been really good for you.  That, here, now, as we move on to others things, places we want to go, and places we are afraid to go to — we can think that our lives have meaning.  That new challenges and adventures await.
But those thoughts don’t let us give way to processing our time, and our experiences.  It doesn’t help us to feel better.  How do you process a year of intensity?  How do we move on to a place where we can live the life we want?

Each person you meet gives you something — leaves you with a new idea or thought.

I just hope that I give each person as much as they give me.  I try.  I try.