The journey is not how you place down what’s weighing on you, but how you learn to stop picking it up. Not when you decide to stop, but the strength of your resolve not to begin again--- with the habits, the people, the thoughts, the behaviors that you know can only lead to your own self destruction. It’s how you release your familiar unhappiness, how you decide you’ve outgrown the emotional crutches that have soothed you and distracted you and held you when you most needed it. How you move forward in what you begin to reach for in their place.

Brianna Wiest