Goodbye to That Life

Goodbye to That Life

It didn’t happen overnight. Healing rarely does.

It started in the quiet moments the kind that force you to sit with yourself, not the version you show to the world, but the one who hides behind the smile when no one’s watching.

I used to think I knew what I wanted. I had built a picture in my head of what life should look like , who would stay, what success would mean, what love would feel like. I held tight to that picture, even as it started to crumble in my hands.

But here’s what I’ve learned: sometimes God lets things fall apart so we can finally see what He’s been trying to build all along.

Goodbye to the life I thought I wanted.

The one built on my own timeline, my own understanding, my own expectations. The one I chased trying to prove I was enough  even when I already was. I had to release the plans that didn’t match His purpose. It hurt. But peace soon followed.

Goodbye to the friends I thought I needed.

Not because they were bad people, but because their part in my story had an ending. I kept trying to rewrite chapters that were meant to close. I loved hard, sometimes too hard, and I confused loyalty with longevity. But not everyone is assigned to every season and that’s okay.

And goodbye to the brokenness that kept me from the better version of me.

I held on to pain because it was familiar. I stayed in rooms where my spirit no longer fit because I didn’t believe I was worthy of better. I kept apologizing for growing for healing  for changing. Until one day, I stopped.

I stopped apologizing for becoming whole.

I stopped dimming my light to make others comfortable.

I stopped chasing what God had already said   Wasn’t my portion.

And in that surrender, I met her the version of me that’s been waiting on the other side of goodbye.

She’s softer but stronger. Quieter but surer. She smiles differently now, not to hide pain, but to celebrate peace.

So yes, this is my goodbye — not out of bitterness, but out of becoming. Because sometimes, the best version of your hello starts with a heartfelt goodbye.

K.W.