Goodbye to millions of unanswered calls.

Goodbye to wasted energy.

Goodbye to being stressed over how our future will evolve into more than what it is today.

Goodbye to you having complete and total access to my apartment and me only having partial access to yours.

Goodbye to the way I allowed certain people in your family to annoy me like no one else in my life ever has.

Goodbye to my old school.

Goodbye to my old apartment.

Goodbye to my hair.

Goodbye to being confined to a certain way of thinking.

Goodbye to trying to figure you out, I’ve decided that it’s time I figure myself out and then maybe I’ll have a better understanding of you.

Goodbye to giving 150% and getting 90% from you.

Goodbye to putting you before me.

Goodbye to the tears that I’ve shed over you.

Goodbye to the girl who thought she couldn’t make a move without you.

Goodbye to the anger and resentment I’ve carried.

Goodbye to my insecurities.

Goodbye to the old skin I’ve shed and hello to the thick skin I’ve grown in to.

Hello to the returned phone calls you’re now getting.

Hello to positive and renewed energy.

Hello to believing what God has told me about you and if my faith is in him there is no need for me to be worried about our future together.

Hello to keeping some things for myself and rationing out portions of myself to you the way you do with me.

Hello to positioning the people in your family in their rightful place in my life.

Hello to The City University of New York.

Hello to my new apartment, my new space, my new sanctuary.

Hello to my very bold and fly haircut.

Hello to opening my mind and as a result gaining a new perspective.

Hello to careful and thought out moves when it comes to my heart.

Hello to the smiles I’ve given myself with my decision to take me back from you and to the smiles that you have given me now that you understand the value of me in your life.

Hello to the woman who never wants to let you go, but will if I have to.

Hello to clarity, understanding and happiness.

Hello to embracing my flaws, knowing that it’s okay to have them and that I have a lifetime to work on them.

Hello to the new me!