let the sun shine
POSTED AT 01:15 PM
For the past three weeks in the mountain, I have been struggling with myself. I walked in empty darkness almost always in anger. Then I realized, that I have been a zombie of my emotions for a while now.
I have let a lot of things affect me. I am on the borderline of letting all those things take over my life. Despite all my struggles, I realized that what I really need to do is let go.
I have been fighting an imaginary battle with myself. I have said time and again that I have put my weapons to rest. Just as I am about to retreat, I suddenly, and expectedly, charge.
Half of the time I feel like I am looking at my life without living it. Half of the time I am surprised at how I've acted. Half of the time I just don't care. But what scares me, is almost all of the time, I don't know myself.
I want to reclaim me. I have to do me. I have to let the sun shine just like I always have.
I have let the world so affect me that I was almost willing to give up who I was. I almost forgot what I loved about everything and anything and nothing.
I can not stop being Camille. And I refuse to let circumstances or people define what Camille should stand for.
This IS my life. But this time, I say that without hostility, or angst. I say it in declaration that I am taking over.
Someone once asked me if I found my smile. I said I always did. That time I lied. Because what I really lost was myself.
Now I decide to start living and walking the path I almost abandoned. Now I know I have never lost my smile. I just let the darkness hide it.
But I have let the sun shine.
The only darkness left now is my skin.