So This Is How It Ends?

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So this is how it ends? Wind rushed through her hair, ripped at her clothes, pulled at her legs. Her footing wasn’t steady, the rocks under her shoes were all hard angles; the flat sides not aiding at all in her battle to stand tall. She wanted to hunch over, curl in on herself, but the cruel breezes kept her shoulders squared.

So this is how it ends? She didn’t want to cry, she wanted to stay strong, to prove a point to the crowd behind her, but with the wind making her eyes tear up she couldn’t hide her feelings close to her heart. It must have been facial recall, when you smile you feel happier, when the wind makes you cry, you just cry harder.

So this is how it ends? She felt as empty as the miles of sea before her. As heavy as the rocks she was standing on. As hopeless as trying to stop the salty tears streaming down her cheeks. Helpless and hopeless. Ready for what came ahead, but also praying that it never came. She could do this, she could do this. She couldn’t do this.

So this was how it ends? As much as she wanted to stay strong she couldn’t, she was scared. The cliff she stood on seemed to drop down for miles before meeting with the ocean floating off to the horizon. The tips of her shoes teased the edge, causing some more pebbles to fall endlessly into the water so far below.

So this is how it ends? With one foot in the air, with one foot still on the ground, she lets go. If the wind before was bad, this was worse, this was blinding. Scared, she wanted to curl in on herself, but the wind held her strong. The wind traced against her with its fingers, wordlessly teaching her more than she could ever have learned on solid ground.

So this is how it ends? For a moment she learned freedom. For a moment she could fly. For a moment she gained the wisdom of what it meant to pick and choose her battles. For a moment she understood that she wasn’t weak for being afraid, but brave for going through with it anyway. Her tears fell slower than she did, trailing across her temples as she sank through the air. She would never be able to use her new found wisdom.

This was how it ends.