“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Hello all-

I have had several people ask why I have not posted a blog in a while. Well, there is no easy answer to that I am afraid. Mostly it has to do that my departure date from Belfast is getting closer and closer and I am not quite sure how I feel about it. 

Belfast very quickly felt like home. I have learned that home is a relative term in life. Home is where the heart is some may say and my heart, it's been in Belfast for a long time. 

While Texas will always be my real home, people and places will always make that home to me, Belfast, Canyon, soon to be St. Louis are all homes to me as well. These places are places where you grow, and even better, if you are lucky flourish. 

Though the stresses of living here are sometimes challenging, while some things about living her have never felt easy to me, it has grown on me. I have grown. To come and have an experience like this one and not be affected by it would prove that something was vastly wrong with me. I will miss so much. I will miss the unmistakable beauty of this place. I will miss the friends that I have grown to love. I will miss this time of my life, a time to grow, to flourish. 

So, as complicated as that is, as confusing as this mixed message may sound...that is where I am right now. I walk the line between being happy and sad for both leaving, and coming home. 

Maya Angelou sums it up as she always does with her graceful words: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." 

Peace to all-

Melissa