I hope you believe that you can still make a beautiful life for yourself, even if you lost many years of it to sadness, or darkness, or a wound that wouldn’t close. A life isn’t measured only by the seasons you lost, it’s also measured by the courage it takes to begin again. The courage it takes to begin again is more than the void that is left behind. And sometimes, what grows after ruin is more breathtaking than what was there before.