Do you know?

If there's one thing I've learned it's that it only takes one person -- 
-- one moment to change your life forever. 
To change your perspective. To color your thinking.
....to force you to re-evaluate everything you think you know.
To make you ask yourself the toughest questions...

Do you know who you are? 
Do you understand what has happened to you? 
Do you want to live this way?

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
*I actually wrote this entry a day or two after the start of 2015. Because on New Years, a cherished friend helped me to realize so much...things I had numbed myself too. Possibilities that seemed out of reach. And the truth of who I really am deep down inside...