Supposed to be, Should be

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I'm supposed to be happy. Isn't this what I wanted? I lost sleep over this. I'm supposed to be ecstatic. I got what I wanted, but at what cost? No one said the price would be this high. Why am I in mourning? I am so afraid of this new path. Of what it is asking me to do. This is supposed to be a good thing, right? Then why do I feel like this? There's this dull ache in my chest. I don't want to leave. But I don't want to stay either. They all left. With no goodbye. Then why am I having a hard time saying goodbye? I don't know. I wish I did. My new life is beckoning. So why do I keep looking back? I'm tired of feeling this feeling. But I'm scared of feeling something new. This is bittersweet but the bitter keeps overpowering the sweet. Why am I having a hard time leaving the things that already left? They only bring me pain but it seems pain is the only thing I am accustomed to. It should be easy, but it's not. I've tasted what my new life has to offer and my goodness, Isn't it delicious. But the new is costing me the old. The old me. The one I took time curating. All that time has gone to waste. Time forced me to become someone new. I like who I have become. I went through a lot to become her. She's my everything. I just hate how I had to become her.

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