oh, to move forward

“We never want it to happen, but yet sometimes it does. Sometimes we lose the people we love, the people we believe we have to have to become the people we’re supposed to be. But here’s the thing; sometimes those people have already instilled in us everything we need to move forward, and we have done the rest. Because, after all, while we are products of our parents, we are also individuals…and you, my sweet Kailene, are a singular individual whose light shines brightly every single day…”